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Assessment of school readiness in the areas of visual and auditory perception
Barešová, Eva ; Felcmanová, Lenka (advisor) ; Mlčková, Marie (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the issue of school maturity in the field of visual and auditory perception and its diagnostics in children in the last year of pre-school education. The theoretical part contains the characteristics of the development of the pre-school child and the conception of pre-primary education, the concepts of school maturity and readiness, risk factors of school failure, deferment of compulsory school attendance, partial functions and deficits of partial functions. Furthermore, the possibilities of diagnostics of phonological and visual perception and other methods of evaluation of the functions, which make the acquisition of school skills successful, are described. Also mentioned is the enrollment of a child into the first grade of elementary school. The objective of the empirical part is to find out whether it is possible to contribute to their maturation by regular stimulation of the partial functions in the field of visual and auditory perception in preschool children, thus improving the readiness of children to enter primary school. The research was carried out in two kindergartens through diagnostic and stimulating material. We predict learning disabilities (Sindelarová, 2016). Methods and tools of primarily quantitative character were used for the survey, incl....
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Decision - making process of parents in the field of postponing the compulsory school attendance
Svobodová, Zuzana ; Greger, David (advisor) ; Kucharská, Anna (referee) ; Rašková, Miluše (referee)
This dissertation describes the decision-making process of parents in the field of postponing the compulsory school attendance or starting it on schedule. The qualitative research is based on an aggregate of 41 semi-structured interviews with parents and two focus groups, completed by subsequent observations and interviews with parents and teachers. The research goal consisted in illuminating the background of the high number of postponements in the Czech Republic, where every year about 20 % of children start in the first class a year later. The dissertation also provides insight on this topic in a comparative perspective and analyzes the initiation of compulsory education in selected European countries. The research results presented in the form of an established theory document that parents' decisions are based primarily on the needs of the family and especially of the need to be a good parent. The decision making is influenced also by the parents' attitude to the delay which has also impact on the weight being attached to other factors of the decision-making process, such as school maturity and individual areas of school readiness as well as the month of birth. During the decision-making process the experience of parents with enrolment in the first grade plays an important role as well. The...
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Dynamic approach to Educational and Psychological assessment and Intervation in Kindergarten.
Krejčová, Kristýna ; Šírová, Eva (advisor) ; Kucharská, Anna (referee) ; Hříbková, Lenka (referee)
Dynamic assessment constitutes an alternative diagnostic approach, focused on revelation of the tested person's learning potential, which is reached and observed via the emphasis on the process of the achievement. It aims at meaningful connection with the intervention that immediately makes use of diagnostic findings to support the development of an individual's abilities. This work summarizes essential information about the mentioned diagnostic trend - its characteristic, a definition compared to conventional ways of testing and historical development. It investigates some possibilities of its utilization, especially in the area of preschool diagnostic and education, and creates a basis for an instrument of the effective prevention of educational and behavioural difficulties during the first years of the school attendance.
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Use of educational stimulation groups in kindergarten
Mikulová, Michaela ; Durdilová, Lucie (advisor) ; Mlčková, Marie (referee)
This diploma work Use of educational stimulation groups program is focused on prevention of children failure in the beginning of school attendance by their participation in stimulation program together with their parents. Aim of the diploma work was to find out whether and how the selected program influenced development of weakend partial areas of children who attended this program and opinions of parents on this program. The diploma work is divided into theoretical and practical part. Theoretical part contains three chapters. First chapter characterizes preschool age and all fields of child 's development. Second chapter focuses on particularity of preschool education, legislation, binding documents, educational influence of the family, clarifies terms of school maturity and readiness and introduces some of the stimulation programs. Third chapter is theoretical solution of the stimulation program examined in the practical part, introduces individual areas important for successful start at school and practical activities developing weakend partial areas of the children. There are aims and survey used methods described in practical part ie. input and output diagnostics, attended observations, questionnaires for the parents and analysis of the survey results. In this chapter there are analyses and...
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