"Comparison of Readiness for First Grade by Boys and Girls in the Port " by Eric W. Oleson
 

Date of Award

10-1971

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Education (MEd)

Department

Education

First Advisor

Edward DeRoche

Second Advisor

R.A. Bernert

Third Advisor

William E. Elliott

Abstract

At what age is a child ready to begin his formal education in the school setting? This question is faced each year by school administrators, teachers, and parents. For the past several years parents have been exerting pressure on the schools to lower the age at which a youngster may be admitted to school. They say that children are more ready to begin school because television has made them aware of so much more than in the past. At the same time some schools have tended to either keep the same starting age or to raise the entrance age referring to research studies which show that older children generally seem to do better than younger children in the same grade. Regardless of what chronological age is established, the majority of school districts set an arbitrary date by which the established age must be reached in order that a child may enter school. Educators spend a great deal of time discussing individual differences in children yet make little effort to determine each child's developmental readiness when entering the school setting for the first time. It is a well-known fact that some children will be more ready to learn at a given chronological age than will others.

Comments

A Research Essay submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of Master of Education, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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