Abstract:

This research was conducted to determine the opinions of the parents of the children of 5-6 age group who were receiving pre-school education about readiness to school and school age. The study was carried out by the parents of children in the age group of 5-6 who continue to an independent kindergarten in Mersin province center Yenişehir district. In this direction, 18 parents who volunteered to participate in the research were employed. In the study, questionnaire was chosen among the survey models from data collection tools. As a questionnaire, "Velilerin and Teachers' Questionnaire of Children's Opinions about School Maturity" developed by Ülkü (2007) was used. At the end of the study, it was seen that, when evaluating the behaviors related to readiness to the school according to the order of importance of the relation with the school age (school readiness), it is seen that 10 items from 20 items are important or very important. When frequency and percentage values of expressions considered important for school maturity were evaluated, 14 of 29 items were found significant by all parents. There was no significant difference between pretest and posttest.

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