The Effect Of Home Environment On Preschool Children's School Readiness

Of late years, the research on school readiness for children is a hot topic in the field of abroad developmental psychology. School Readiness is the key features necessary needed by children to benefit from the incoming formal school education. The research on this topic will be of great value to early recognition and timely intervention for children at potential risk in their development. Methods uesd in this research included Questionnaire Survey and Interviewing Method etc. From the angle of quantitative study combined with qualitative study, we mainly examined the effect of home environment on preschool children's school readiness.The study of the dissertation included six sections as follow:The first part was literature summary. Subsequently this paper had a systemic and overall analysis to respectively the boundary of the conception of school readiness, some correlative theories, measuring of school readiness, the abroad researches regarding to the effect of home environment on preschool children's school readiness and the research status in China.The second part was question proposed. Through analyzing the problems existed in the process of past studies, the present study proposed the overall design of research, the specific problems to be resolved and specific research program. Meanwhile, the method of measurement the thoughts of study used in the process of the research were all put forward in the paper. Simultaneously, the theory value and practical significance of the results were shown clearly.The third part was the development of accessing tool of children's school readiness. Preliminary conceptualizations of the dimensions were offered on School Readiness according to NEGP (National Education Goals Panel): "physical well-being and motor Development", "social and emotional development", "learning approach", "language development" and "cognition and general knowledge". School Ready Tool Box (SRTB) was developed and then used to do the assessment. The result indicated that assessment has not only got ideal difficulty and differentiation but has good reliability and validity. It's also convenient to use and reasonably structured which can be used to assess the school readiness of children between 4 and 7 so as to identify those who differ in degree.The forth part was the research about the effects of family on children's school readiness. From two aspects of family resource system and family naturing activity system, the research systematically examined the effect of different factors of home environment on preschool children's school readiness. It showed two points as follow. Among the family resource system, parents' profession, educational status, ages and long suits have significant effects on children's school readiness. Among the family naturing activity system, explaining the Natural and Scientific Knowledge to children, frequently bringing them to watch the activities such as show, sports games and movies, children's independence, father's participating in certain aspects have significant effects on children's school readiness.The fifth part was the qualitative research on home environment of children who have high school readiness. By the means of personal interview with their parents, we tried to find out what constitutes the reasons for the children who have better development, analyse the features of the home environment of children who have high school readiness so as to find out the favorable factors promoting children's school readiness. It enriched existing researches on effects of family in children's school readiness and also provided with referential theoretical reference and practical guidance in the hope of promoting family education practice of children's school readiness.The sixth part was discussion and reconsideration. On the basis of history literature the researcher fully discussed and elucidated the effects of various factors of home environment on children's school education and favorable factors of family that can promote children's school readiness, on the basis of which, feature of self-esteem and determined factors. the result, process and measure of investigation were discussed and reconsidered comprehensive in this paper. In the end of this paper, the researcher made a bold forecast and expectation about the development trend of self-esteem study in the future.Above the whole process of research, the researcher broke through the limitation of research on "Ready For Primary School". Also she had an adventurous and innovatory study about children's school readiness and developed the Test Box suitable for Chinese children, attempting research and exploring study. The author also put up a series of systemic survey and deep analysis and also brought forward the constructive points for carrying out practice of family education for promoting the children's school readiness. The results of the research will provide theoretical basis and practical guidance for the question of children's school readiness in China, which had the important theory value and the realistic significance.