Parents’ Beliefs, Attitudes toward School, and School Readiness of Preschoolers after Social Restrictions during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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10.2991/978-2-38476-142-5_14How to use a DOI?

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parents’ beliefs; attitude to school; preschoolers; children’s school readiness

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic situation has made schools including kindergartens conduct online learning for more than three semesters. This leads to face-to-face teachers and preschoolers being limited. This research examined school readiness among the last second semester of second-year kindergarten children to enter formal school and children’s attitudes to school. Furthermore, parents’ beliefs about the attitudes, abilities, and activities of children that support children’s school readiness were also investigated. A quantitative approach, especially a cross-sectional study was employed in this research to obtain an understanding of children’s school readiness. A total of 81 kindergarten children from four kindergartens were involved in this survey. The data were collected through questionnaires distributed to parents to measure parental beliefs about school readiness and attitude to school. The data were also taken by administering N.S.T (Nijmeegse Schoolbekwaamheids Test) to these second-year preschoolers to obtain the data on children’s school readiness. The survey of parents showed that they have strong beliefs in some aspects that support school readiness and the results of the school readiness test provide evidence that children who were categorized as ready to enter primary school did not reach 60%. Furthermore, age and attitude to school simultaneously have a significant correlation with school readiness (R= .316, F= 3.545 at p = .035 at l.o.s = .05)

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Erni Agustina Setiowati
AU  - Jhoni Warmansyah
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/11/17
TI  - Parents’ Beliefs, Attitudes toward School, and School Readiness of Preschoolers after Social Restrictions during the COVID-19 Pandemic
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Science and Education (ICoeSSE 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 134
EP  - 146
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-142-5_14
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-142-5_14
ID  - Setiowati2023
ER  -