,,Child Readiness for School Education - Diagnostic Methods and Determinations of School Maturity"

This bachelor thesis, Child Readiness for School Education - Methods and Diagnostic Determinations of School Maturity, I deal with the topic of school maturity and school readiness with focus on child readiness for school education. It consists of two parts: theoretical and practical. In the theoretical part, I describe and define the concepts of school maturity and readiness and the development of pre-school children. I further mention possible methods of preparing the child for education, the legal framework of the matter and also the diagnostics of school maturity. The goal of the practical part is to find out whether or not there is any merit in comparing the evaluation of the parents with the child skill tests; test the functioning of a new detection tool and, based on a pilot testing run, find other possible additional points of improvement of the tool itself and its user friendliness. As part of the case study, I deal with testing 6 pre-school children from a specific pre- school on their school maturity level and subsequently compare the results with their parents' assessment by means of a questionnaire answered by the parents. Part of this test of the group of pre-schools children is also a pilot run of a new detection tool while focusing not only on the functionality of the tool but also..