The School Readiness of Six-Year-Old and Seven-Year- -Old Children as Measured by Intelligence and Development Scales (IDS) and Subjective Assessment of Mothers Cover Image

The School Readiness of Six-Year-Old and Seven-Year- -Old Children as Measured by Intelligence and Development Scales (IDS) and Subjective Assessment of Mothers
The School Readiness of Six-Year-Old and Seven-Year- -Old Children as Measured by Intelligence and Development Scales (IDS) and Subjective Assessment of Mothers

Author(s): Paulina Michalska, Anna Szymanik-Kostrzewska
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Psychology, Social psychology and group interaction, Developmental Psychology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: school readiness; children’s competences; mothers’ assessments; six-year-old children; seven-year-old children; IDS

Summary/Abstract: The presented study aimed at determining the school readiness of first-grade pupils by scores of standardised competence tests and the subjective assessment of mothers, checking possibilities to differentiate the results of preschoolers and pupils and correlations of both measurement methods. The Intelligence and Development Scales (IDS) and the Questionnaire of Subjective School Readiness Assessment by Parents (KGSD-R), with subscales analogous to those of IDS, were used. The three studied groups involved 36 first-grade pupils, 34 older pre-schoolers, and 34 younger pre-schoolers. The average scores of the pupils on all the IDS subscales point to their sufficient school readiness. Objective (IDS) and subjective results (KGSD-R) differentiated the children’s results into high and low, however, the correlations for the pre-schoolers were few and low, and for pupils – not statistically significant.

  • Issue Year: 25/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 43-58
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English