Optimization of children’s transition from preschool and family environment to the first grade of primary school in Slovakia by implementation of an adaptation programme

Tatiana Marcineková, Diana Borbélyová and Anna Tirpáková

Children and Youth Services Review, 2020, vol. 119, issue C

Abstract: The presented contribution is devoted to the issue of children‘s transition from kindergarten and family environment to the first grade of primary school. This period is accompanied by several changes which bring about various adaptive difficulties for some children. An adaptation programme has been developed to mitigate or eliminate the difficulties, aimed at optimising the conditions in the transition period. In order to verify the effectiveness of the programme, a pedagogical experiment was carried out in selected primary schools in Slovakia. The results of the experiment were analysed using selected statistical methods. Experiments confirmed that the proposed adaptation programme had a statistically significant effect on the quality of the adaptation process. A significant improvement in pupils' adaptation occurred not only shortly after the application of the program, but the improvement also had a long-term effect.

Keywords: Adaptation process; Adaptation difficulties; Adaptation programme; Optimization of school conditions; χ2- test; One sample Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C10 I20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105483

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