PsychINFO Group’ Peer Reviewed 3 ‘Nurture Only & Age: Teacher Reference ‘Adolescence’ Center (13-17 yrs) In of criteria for inclusion, a final stage of the process deemed only articles that had been peer reviewed should be included, thereby establishing a level of quality appropriate for the research. Researchers can bias the results of a literature review by excluding data that is methodologically questionable, based on their own personal, subjective judgement (Ogawa & Malen, 1991). Therefore in an attempt to be objective, all 21 resulting peer reviewed articles were analysed and critiqued. and as separate entities in the same search returned 1,343 ‘Nurture’ ‘Group’ results across all five databases, a large majority of which were extraneous. The phrase Group’ then returned 317 results, whilst at the same time ‘Nurture terminologies for other variant NGs were considered. Given the focal NG of this research had breakfast as the nucleus of the intervention, the phrase Club’ returned 495 results. However, these studies appeared to ‘Breakfast focus solely on the provision of breakfast before school as an intervention and detracted from the six previously defined principles of NGs and hence were not considered for analysis. In addition to peer reviewing, an age bracket of years’ was set as a criterion, as this would incorporate all existing NG ‘0-12 research from primary whilst overlapping and exceeding the secondary age group (11/12) for this research. 2.4.1 Variant Nurture Groups Two studies focused on NGs that followed variant two - variant’ NGs - as ‘new previously described by Cooper, Arnold & Boyd (1998). Scott & Lee (2009) looked at part-time nurture groups, established in four different primary schools within the same Scottish local authority. 50 children were assessed using Boxall Profiles against control groups; for those in the NGs, statistically
PsychINFO Teacher Reference Center ‘Nurture Group’ Peer Reviewed Only & Age: ‘Adolescence’ (13-17 yrs) 3 In of criteria for inclusion, a final stage of the process deemed only articles that had been peer reviewed should be included, thereby establishing a level of quality appropriate for the research. Researchers can bias the results of a literature review by excluding data that is methodologically questionable, based on their own personal, subjective judgement (Ogawa & Malen, 1991). Therefore in an attempt to be objective, all 21 resulting peer reviewed articles were analysed and critiqued. ‘Nurture’ and ‘Group’ as separate entities in the same search returned 1,343 results across all five databases, a large majority of which were extraneous. The phrase ‘Nurture Group’ then returned 317 results, whilst at the same time terminologies for other variant NGs were considered. Given the focal NG of this research had breakfast as the nucleus of the intervention, the phrase ‘Breakfast Club’ returned 495 results. However, these studies appeared to focus solely on the provision of breakfast before school as an intervention and detracted from the six previously defined principles of NGs and hence were not considered for analysis. In addition to peer reviewing, an age bracket of ‘0-12 years’ was set as a criterion, as this would incorporate all existing NG research from primary whilst overlapping and exceeding the secondary age group (11/12) for this research. 2.4.1 Variant Nurture Groups Two studies focused on NGs that followed variant two - ‘new variant’ NGs - as previously described by Cooper, Arnold & Boyd (1998). Scott & Lee (2009) looked at part-time nurture groups, established in four different primary schools within the same Scottish local authority. 50 children were assessed using Boxall Profiles against control groups; for those in the NGs, statistically
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