Abstract:

Considering the importance self-regulation skills have gained in international pre-school literature, it seems that these skills should be emphasized as much as other skills that are tried to be developed in the pre-school period. Accordingly, the aim of the study was to examine the effect of self-regulation education program in the pre-school period on the development of self-regulation skills of 60-72 month-old children attending pre-school. The study has a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design with a control group. A total of 46 children (23 in the experimental, 23 in the control group) aged between 60-72 months who are attending kindergarten participated in the study. The research data were collected using the Self-Regulation Skills Scale for Age 4–6 (Teacher Form). The "Pre-School Self-Regulation Skills Education Program" was implemented with children in the experimental group three times a week for seven weeks.  Comparison of the pre-test scores of the experimental and control groups was made using t-test for independent samples and the pre-test-post-test comparisons were made using t-test for the paired samples. In the study, it was found that there was a significant difference between the scores of self-regulation skills of the children in the experimental and control groups and that the implemented education program resulted in a desirable and effective outcome. Various suggestions were made based on the results obtained from the study.

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