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Authors
Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN
Source
Indian Journal of Positive Psychology, Vol 11, No 4 (2020), Pagination: 365-370
Abstract
Academic readiness plays an important role in early childhood period and it sets the basis for future development. It is a holistic approach of parents, children, and school towards appropriate development of child. Academic readiness is gaining attention as an important approach to merge the learning gap and improves the quality of achieving lifelong learning and full developmental potential among preschoolers. This study comprising 200 children (i.e., 100 rural & 100 urban) of class-I from randomly selected private schools of rural and urban area of Ludhiana district. Self-structured academic readiness checklist was undertaken to assess academic readiness. The results revealed that most of the rural and urban children had high level of skills in overall academic readiness. Locale wise differences depicted that urban children had better skills across various domains of academic readiness than rural children.
Keywords
Academic Readiness, Per-reading Readiness, Per-writing Readiness, Per-arithmetic Readiness.
