Özet:

One of the important skills to be developed in the pre-school period is the scientific process skills.  The Montessori approach supports all areas of children’s development and contributes to the basic cognitive process skills. The study aimed at studying the scientific process skills of children aged 48-72 months who continue their pre-school education during the Montessori educational program. The study group consists of 14 children studying in the Montessori class of a state kindergarten located in the center of a province and 60 children studying in the Montessori class of 4 Montessori class located in Montessori. As a data collection tool developed by Aydoğdu and Karakuş (2017), validity and reliability studies have been carried out using the "Basic Skills Measurement for Pre-School Students (OYTBÖ)". This scale includes 20 questions about observation, classification, drawings, measurement and prediction skills. There are significant differences between the children’s pre-application and final-application scores in their classification, measurement, observation, output and prediction skills in favour of final-application.This finding shows that the children’s scientific process skills are significantly developing in their post-education skills in the Montessori school. In terms of gender variable, it has been determined that in all sizes of the scale, there is no significant difference between the pre-application and final-application scores of girls and boys students.

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