Examination of Auditory Reasoning and Processing Skills in terms of Gender, Type of School and Pre-school Education Period

Authors : Filiz ERBAY

Pages : 57-65

Doi:10.17275/per.15.05.2.1

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Publication Date : 2015-04-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This research is conducted as a causal comparative research with the purpose of examining the effect of gender, preschool attendance duration and type of preschool education institution on auditory reasoning and processing skills of six-year old children who are attending to preschool. Participants are composed of children who are between 60 and 72 months old and attending to private and public kindergartens in Konya and include 314 children. Test of Auditory Reasoning and Processing Skills were used to collect the data in the study. Data were analyzed within dependent samples t test and oneway ANOVA. Findings of study revealed that auditory reasoning and processing skills of children did not differ according to gender. However, auditory reasoning and processing skills of children having 3 year- preschool education was statistically significantly higher than those having 2 and 1 year- preschool education and of children having 2- year preschool education was statistically significantly higher than those having 1 year of preschool education. Auditory reasoning and processing skills of children attending to independent kindergartens were also found statistically significantly higher than those attending to nursery classes. As specified in research results, preschool education support children’s auditory reasoning and processing skills. Therefore, preschool education must be started in earlier ages instead of one year before elementary education.
Keywords : Auditory reasoning and processing skills, preschool children, preschool education