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Comparison of Rural and Urban Pre-School Children for Cognitive Abilities


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The pre-school children develop a wide range of cognitive abilities and use of different learning materials help young children to use their cognitive ability and creativity in developing their imagination and mental development. The aim of the present study was to know the comparison between rural an urban pre-school children for cognitive abilities. The samples for the study comprised of 120 preschool children in the age group of 4 to 6 years from two anganwadies of Dharwad and two anganwadies of Gadag taluks of UAS jurisdiction. Bracken Basic Concept scale (2006) was used to assess the cognitive abilities of preschool children. The results revealed that majority of the preschool children belonged to average level in all the dimensions of cognitive abilities in rural and urban areas. Gender had significant influence on cognitive abilities of pre-school children among rural area. It was observed that in rural area girls had higher level of cognitive abilities than boys.

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Pre-School, Cognitive Abilities, Learning Material.
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Authors

Lata Pujar
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science University of Agricultural sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, India
Soumya Kammar
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science University of Agricultural sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, India

Abstract


The pre-school children develop a wide range of cognitive abilities and use of different learning materials help young children to use their cognitive ability and creativity in developing their imagination and mental development. The aim of the present study was to know the comparison between rural an urban pre-school children for cognitive abilities. The samples for the study comprised of 120 preschool children in the age group of 4 to 6 years from two anganwadies of Dharwad and two anganwadies of Gadag taluks of UAS jurisdiction. Bracken Basic Concept scale (2006) was used to assess the cognitive abilities of preschool children. The results revealed that majority of the preschool children belonged to average level in all the dimensions of cognitive abilities in rural and urban areas. Gender had significant influence on cognitive abilities of pre-school children among rural area. It was observed that in rural area girls had higher level of cognitive abilities than boys.

Keywords


Pre-School, Cognitive Abilities, Learning Material.

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