Combined guidance methods have the greatest impact

Instructions have the greatest impact when it contains several initiatives in and outside the school, which together form a whole. According to a major new study on the guidance documents prepared efficacy based on research from 2000 until today.

Ministry of Education asked in 2010 Danish Clearinghouse for Educational Research at Aarhus University to examine what the research says about the effect of the guidance methods that are used in connection with transition guide between elementary and secondary education, secondary and higher education and adult in employment. The survey results clearly indicate that it is important that it is a combination of methods that are part of the curriculum and as part of the activities taking place at school. Parents and friends have great influence as "informal mentors ", and finally the personal relationship between the counselor and the counseled important. Therefore, the individual conversation is also very important. Education Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said: "I have particularly attached to me by that research confirms that the initiatives in the Young Package II seems to be sensible. At the same time, the report now clear how important the guide is for the group of young people who come from homes with no or very little education. "

Need specific guidance initiatives in relation to young people with negative social legacy

The report indicates that the instructions of course not in itself solve the problem of negative social legacy, there is this area too complex. But the study shows that the guide has an impact on the students who come from so-called education in the home because they do not have role models and generally get less information through their parents than others. Where residential and colleagues are essential for a young from an average home, instructions, a substantial increase importance for young people with a negative social legacy. The study has not been able to find factors specific to the ethnicity. Research Director and Associate Professor Gerd Christensen said: "The study examines all research on transitional guidance with proven efficacy from 2000 until today. To the survey results to be applied to Danish conditions, so we have selected countries where there is some similarity with Danish guidance conditions. These are the Nordic countries, UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Western Europe. we actually found only 39 relevant studies and on that basis, we note that to work with power issues are rarely guide the research. "Source: UVM.dk