Presentation to students at University of Virginia for Finland Fulbright Foundation award

1. UEF // University of Eastern Finland
Kwok Ng, PhD
Postdoctoral researcher
University of Eastern Finland
University of Limerick, Ireland
Fulbright Finland Foundation
Travel Grantee 2019
Inclusive Educational
Learning
Environments

2. UEF // University of Eastern Finland
Republic of Finland
• Population: 5.5 Million
• Area: 130,596 sq mi
• Avg. density 46 people/sq
mi
• Bilingual: Finnish &
Swedish
• 63% speak English as
an additional language
• Nordic welfare country
• One of the best
performers in Education in
PISA (OECD) since 20006/17/2019Fulbright Finland @kwokwng 2

3. UEF // University of Eastern Finland 6/17/2019Fulbright Finland @kwokwng 3

4. UEF // University of Eastern Finland 6/17/2019Fulbright Finland @kwokwng 4

5. UEF // University of Eastern Finland
Philosophical
Faculty
School of
Educational
Sciences and
Psychology
Special
Education

6. UEF // University of Eastern Finland
Current Research Areas
School of Educational Sciences and Psychology
Kwok Ng
6/17/2019Fulbright Finland @kwokwng 6

7. 6/17/2019Fulbright Finland @kwokwng 7
The percentage of pupils with an official decision of
SEN, based on the enrolled school population (%)
European Agency Statistics on Inclusive Education. 2016
Dataset Cross-country Report
Belgium (Fl) 9.36
Croatia 6.13
Cyprus 6.90
Czech Rep. 8.79
Denmark 5.13
Estonia 7.92
Finland 7.29
France 3.09
Germany 5.51
Hungary 7.32
Iceland 16.33
Ireland 6.04
Italy 3.37
Latvia 6.55
Lithuania 13.04
Luxembourg 1.54
Malta 8.04
Netherlands 3.31
Norway 8.02
Poland 3.33
Portugal 7.56
Slovakia 11.53
Slovenia 7.79
Spain 2.96
Sweden 1.06
Switzerland 3.91
UK (England) 2.80
UK (N. Ireland) 5.12
UK (Scotland) 20.50
UK (Wales) 2.93
Total average (30) 4.44
0.00 5.00 10.00 15.00 20.00 25.00

8. 8 Fulbright Finland @kwokwng 6/17/2019

9. LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS FOR INCLUSIVE
EDUCATION
Physical
Environment
Pedagogical
Environment
Social
Environment
Technical
Environment
Online
learning

10. PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
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Fulbright Finland @kwokwng 6/17/2019

11. PEDAGOGICAL
ENVIRONMENT
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• Planning
• Organising
• Time management
• Working memory
• Metacognition
• Management of own actions
• Regulation of emotions
• Flexibility
• Goal orientation
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12. SOCIAL
ENVIRONMENT
THOMAS GORDON
CLASSROOM
MANAGEMENT
STRATEGIES
Fulbright Finland @kwokwng
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13. TECHNOLOGY
ENVIRONMENT
Fulbright Finland @kwokwng
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• Use of technology in
teaching methods
• Technology opening up
new learnings
• Use of games for learning
and a game environment
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14. TESTING EFFECTIVENESS
OF ONLINE LEARNING
Fulbright Finland @kwokwng
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• 2 site universities
• Registration of students to choose between classic vs
intervention
Planning
• Mapping teaching activities to online content
• Testing on Moodle site
Course content
• Registration and allocations
• Testing outcome measures at pre- and post-
• Considering data analytics for analyses
Experiment

15. UEF // University of Eastern Finland
Current Research Areas
School of Educational Sciences and Psychology
Kwok Ng
6/17/2019Fulbright Finland @kwokwng15

16. WASHINGTON GROUP ON DISABILITY STATISTICS
• All children have the right to education (Sustainable Development Goal 4).
• Data should be collected on disabilities (Convention on the right of persons with
disabilities – CRPD, article 31)
• Children classified in special needs does not equate to a child with disabilities
• A coherent way for measuring disabilities is needed for
• Monitoring purposes
• Comparison purposes
• For creating policies at local, national and international levels.
6/17/2019Fulbright Finland @kwokwng
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17. WASHINGTON GROUP (WG) ON DISABILITY
STATISTICS
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18. SELF-REPORT WG/UNICEF CHILD FUNCTIONING MODULE
Do you have difficulty seeing, even if wearing your glasses or contact lenses?
Do you have difficulty hearing sounds like people’s voices, even if using a hearing aid?
Do you have difficulty walking 100 yards/meters on level ground, even if you use any
equipment or receive assistance? That would be about the length of a football field [or insert
country specific example]
Do you have difficulty with self-care such as feeding or dressing yourself?
When you speak, do you have difficulty being understood by people outside of your home?
Compared with students of the same age, do you have difficulty learning things?
Compared with students of the same age, do you have difficulty remembering things?
Do you have difficulty concentrating on an activity that you enjoy doing?
Do you have difficulty accepting changes in your routine?
Compared with students of the same age, do you have difficulty controlling your behaviour?
Do you have difficulty making friends?
https://data.unicef.org/resources/module-child-functioning-concept-note/
None Some A lot Cannot do
Kwok Ng – Testing self-report CFM

19. CFM IN SPECIAL EDUCATION
• Challenges in the cut off for special education for support levels
• In data management, the cut off is at least ‘a lot of difficulties’ (a lot of difficulties
or cannot do)
• Groupings of functional difficulties into categories
• Sensory
• Cognitive
• Social-emotional
• Walking difficulties as many functioning in relation to moving difficulties.
6/17/2019
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20. ODDS RATIO OF ACTIVE ADOLESCENTS
(REF 1.0 = WITHOUT DISABILITIES)
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21. UEF // University of Eastern Finland
APA Studies Journey to 2021
•Prerequisites
•UVa approval
•Travel prep.
Admission
•Jan – May 2021
•Vierumäki, Finland
•Applied learning
EUDAPA
•May – June 2021
•University of Jyvaskyla
•3 weeks (1 week APA)
Summer
School
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22. UEF // University of Eastern Finland
Thank you! Kiitos!
See you in Finland 2021
Kwok.ng@uef.fi @kwokwng