Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Annual International Conference on Cognitive - Social, and Behavioural Sciences (icCSBs), Mersin, Türkiye, 14 - 17 Mayıs 2014, cilt.1, ss.174-184, (Tam Metin Bildiri)
Language and skills oriented activities are one of the important activities in the educational process and they provide the necessary foundations for the development of cognitive abilities. This study aims to investigate the effect of Academic and Language Skills Educational Program on 61-66 month old Children's Cognitive abilities. The sample of this experimental study included a total number of randomly selected 61-66 month old 64 children (34 experiment and 34 control) attending to kindergardens in Ankara Turkey during 2012-2013 academic year. In order to find out children's level of reasoning abilities, "Cognitive Abilities Test Form-6" which was developed by Lohman and Hagen (2000) and adapted to Turkish children by Inal (2011) was used. The data gathered, then, was analyzed with appropriate statistical techniques. As a result, it was reported that there is a statistically significant effect with a large effect size between the control and experiment groups' verbal dimension and quantitative dimension scores on the pretest and verbal dimension and quantitative dimension corrected scores on the posttest. In the light of findings, "Academic and Language Educational Program" can be reported as facilitating children's cognitive abilities. The findings are similar in those of Starkey, Klein and Wakeley (2004), Welsh et al. (2010), Inal (2011) all of whom studied preschoolers' cognitive abilities development using experimental designs. (c) 2014 The Authors. Published by Cognitive - crcs under responsibility of the Author(s).