We will be ending our participation in the MTA Public Education Research Programme in August this year. However, our research will continue. We have invited teachers who participated in the programme to continue following their students. Children starting Year 4 in autumn can now be tested in groups using the online Sensorimotor and Cognitive Profile Test. This will make the process much easier for their teachers.

The problem is that there have been several changes of teachers, meaning that in many places, the classes included in the research are no longer led by the original teacher. Nevertheless, we hope that we will still manage to follow a sufficient number of children. From next year onwards, this will become more difficult as the classes will change significantly as the children move into the upper grades. Children may change schools, for example to eight-year-secondary schools. It is therefore important that we obtain data in the follow-up now, to ensure we have information on these children from the time they start school until the end of lower secondary school.