de Bruijn, Annette
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (360-30-210)
Article History
First Online: 22 August 2017
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The author declares that she has no conflict of interest.
: All schools that participated in this study chose to do so based on information about the content and aims of the intervention program and, after their expression of interest, more detailed information on the research instruments of data collection and measures to ensure data protection and privacy of participants. Heads of schools as well as teachers signed an agreement about their participation which stated their and our (the research team) commitments. All children involved in this study had been informed by their teachers and received a letter with information about the intervention program for their parents or legal guardians. The letter included the possibility to object to children’s participation in the Cultural Literacy Test and video registration. During the Test, when children expressed the strong wish to stop, we did so and guided them back to their classrooms. The study was carried out in compliance with The Netherlands Code of Conduct for Academic Practice (2004) and data collection was carried out in regard of participants’ privacy, well-being and general informed consent or assent.