Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the task of school adjustment in the first grade of elementary school during early entrance and to reveal the importance and performance of such perception.
 Methods: For this purpose, a semi-structured focus group interview was conducted with eleven first-grade homeroom teachers with significant field experience in elementary school. According to the process of the conceptual analysis, sixty-one conceptual statements were derived on school adjustment during early admission, and thirty-eight key statements were finalized after the agreement of the three researchers. The confirmed statements were conducted a classification method of similarity for twenty-six people. Following this, a multi-dimensional scaling method and hierarchical cluster analysis, and importance and performance evaluation were conducted in the stated orde.
 Results: Finally, a two-dimensional concept map including six clusters (adaptation in the environment vs. internal control, adaptation in the group vs. individual adaptation) was derived. The final clusters are specifically about acclimatizing to the environment and routine of an elementary school that is different from an early childhood education institution (cluster 1), overcoming anxiety and fear in unfamiliar situations and maintaining psychological stability (cluster 2), and cultivating basic learning abilities and basic lifestyle habits (cluster 3), concentrating attention and controlling impulsiveness(cluster 4), getting along well with friends and being considerate (cluster 5), and living safely by following school rules (cluster 6).
 Conclusion: This study is meaningful in that it empirically explored the core concept at a time when the importance of school adjustment during early admission of first graders in elementary school, who are experiencing ecological transfer from early childhood education to the elementary education, has garnered attention.

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