DIAGNOSTICS OF OLDER PRESCHOOL CHILDREN’S SENSITIVITY FORMATION LEVELS

Abstract

The article covers the general issues of the organization and content of the ascertainment experiment and analyzed the results of diagnostics of the state of older preschoolers’ sensitivity formation. The criteria for choosing the diagnostic toolkit for determining the level of preschoolers’ sensitivity formation were age and individual characteristics, as well as the possibility to identify and characterize the indicators of sensitivity formation proposed by us. The toolkit included the development of a questionnaire in the form of a conversation, and the diagnostic game “Who is sensitive?” based on plot diagnostic cards; plots were developed for the organization of role-playing games “Hospital” and “Veterinary Clinic”. Characterization of the levels of older preschool children’s sensitivity formation has been carried out according to the specified criteria and indicators. We have found that, according to the cognitive criterion children of older preschool age have an average and low level of sensitivity formation. We got the highest score for the emotional-motivational criterion because children are prone to showing moral feelings. Yet, they often need additional incentives for charitable activities. And unfortunately, the results of diagnostics according to the activity-behavioral criterion also turned out to be low due to the lack of preschool children’s skills in showing sensitive attitudes toward others. The confirmatory section has proved the necessity of carrying out systematic, planned work in preschool educational institutions on preschoolers’ sensitivity formation. A confirmatory experiment to determine the initial levels of older preschool children’s sensitivity formation in the conditions of the traditional educational process in a preschool education institution according to cognitive, emotional-motivational, and activity-behavioral criteria revealed that the average and low levels of sensitivity education prevailed among children, which caused the need for the search for ways to solve this problem, in the justification and practical approbation of pedagogical conditions for the preschoolers’ sensitivity formation in the conditions of preschool educational institutions.