Comparative examination of children's school readiness level who have attended mother child education program

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of Mother Child Education Program (MCEP) on seven year old children's school readiness who have just started primary education. In this study post-test, control group design, one of the experimental designs is going to be used. The sampling of the study is composed of 90 students who are going to start primary education during 2009-2010 academic year. Students are categorized into three groups; 30 students whose mothers attended MCEP during 2008–2009 academic year, 30 students who had pre-school education and 30 students who have not taken any type of pre-school education Metropolitan Readiness Test (MRT) are going to be used to gather necessary information. MRT was developed to measure first year students’ characteristics that help their readiness to understand instructions and their academic success. Oktay (1980) adapted R form of the test to Turkish. The test has 100 items and 6 sub tests, these are, understanding vocabulary test, sentences test, general information test, matching test, copying test, numbers test. Data gathered for the study is analyzed by using SPSS 10.0 which is a statistical program. At the end of the study average scores of children who have attended MCEP and preschool education institution at MRT's vocabulary understanding, sentences understanding, general knowledge, matching, numbers and copying subgroups differ p<0.5 insignificantly. Difference between scores of children who have attended MCEP and did not attend preschool education institution at MRT's matching subgroup is .005. There is no significant difference between other subgroups.