Rosholm, Michael
Tonnesen, Pia Beck
Rasmussen, Klaus
Overgaard, Steffen
Færch, Julie Vangsøe
Malm, Signe Gottschau
Harder, Jimmy https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4983-716X
Funding for this research was provided by:
TrygFonden (122318)
A.P. Møller og Hustru Chastine Mc-Kinney Møllers Fond til almene Formaal (16-07-0030, 16-07-0030, 16-07-0030, 16-07-0030, 16-07-0030, 16-07-0030)
Article History
Received: 29 February 2024
Accepted: 25 March 2025
First Online: 17 April 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: No ethical approval was required or obtained; in Denmark, from a legal perspective, only biomedical research has to be notified to the ethics committee of the respective region (). Therefore, when the study was initiated, no IRB existed at Aarhus University. The researchers sought advice from the ethics group of TrygFonden’s Centre for Child Research (). We followed their guidelines, which are based on the Danish Code of Conduct for Research Integrity and on the respective international declarations, such as the Singapore and Montreal declarations.
: Informed consent was not required, as the changes in teaching methods were within the discretion of the school management to decide. However, all parents received a letter explaining that some pupils would be part of testing a new method of teaching in mathematics and that if they did not want their child to take part in the study, they should inform the school that they wanted to opt-out.