The School Readiness of Six-Year-Old and Seven-Year- -Old Children as Measured by Intelligence and Development Scales (IDS) and Subjective Assessment of Mothers

• Published in: Psychologia Rozwojowa Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 43 - 58
• Main Authors: Michalska, Paulina, Szymanik-Kostrzewska, Anna
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kraków Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego 2020; Jagiellonian University Press; Jagiellonian University-Jagiellonian University Press
• Subjects: Academic readiness; Adaptation; Children & youth; Cognitive ability; Developmental Psychology; Dictionaries; Families & family life; Learning; Parents & parenting; Preschool education; Psychology; Social psychology and group interaction; Social Sciences; Success; sixyearold children; school readiness; IDS; children’s competences; mothers’ assessments; sevenyearold children
• ISSN: 1895-6297; 2084-3879
• DOI: 10.4467/20843879PR.20.011.12266

The presented study aimed at determining the school readiness of first-grade pupils by scores of standardised competence tests and the subjective assessment of mothers, checking possibilities to differentiate the results of preschoolers and pupils and correlations of both measurement methods. The Intelligence and Development Scales (IDS) and the Questionnaire of Subjective School Readiness Assessment by Parents (KGSD-R), with subscales analogous to those of IDS, were used. The three studied groups involved 36 first-grade pupils, 34 older pre-schoolers, and 34 younger pre-schoolers. The average scores of the pupils on all the IDS subscales point to their sufficient school readiness. Objective (IDS) and subjective results (KGSD-R) differentiated the children’s results into high and low, however, the correlations for the pre-schoolers were few and low, and for pupils – not statistically significant.