An Examination of the Effect of Supportive Educational Programs on Early Learning Skills of 61 to72-month-old Turkish Children

Abstract

This study was undertaken to examine the effect of the Supportive Education Program for Early Learning Skills (SEPELS) on early learning skills of six-year-old children attending to nursery school. The study has an experimental model and applied with a pre-test/post-test design. The sample of the study is composed of 61-72-month-old children attending nursery classes of the primary schools chosen randomly. Test of Early Learning Skills (TELS) was administrated to collect data for the study. In this study, the researcher prepared and applied SEPELS to find out the effects of the SEPELS on children’s Early Learning Skills (ELS). As a result of this study, it was found out that average ELS scores of the children in the experimental group were significantly higher than those of the ones in the control group.