Effect of a Participatory Learning Enhancing Program on Family’s Practices in Assessing Development of Children in Early Childhood in Communities
Keywords:
Participatory learning, Family’s practices, Early childhood developmentAbstract
The situation of children in early childhood who have appropriate development is decreasing. Assessment of early childhood development by parents is, therefore, important for finding the problems and ensuring children receive timely care. This quasi-experimental two-group, pretest-posttest design aimed to investigate the effect of a participatory learning enhancement program on family practices in assessing early childhood development. The 48 participants were parents or guardians of young children in a childcare center affiliated with the local administration and who were assigned, by simple random sampling, into an experimental or a control group with 24 in each. The research instruments included the Participatory Learning Enhancing Program devised by the researcher, based on Kolb’s Participatory Learning, for a duration of 8 weeks; and an activities' learning plan from the Developmental Surveillance and Promotion Manual (DSPM). Video instructors were also used. The data collecting instrument was a family practice questionnaire on assessing development in early childhood, with a Kuder-Richardson (KR-20) coefficient of .90. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, the Wilcoxon matched pairs signed-ranks test, and the Mann-Whitney U test
The findings revealed that parents and guardians of young children who received the Participatory Learning Enhancing Program for 8 weeks had a mean score of family practices in assessing early childhood development (M = 6.33, SD = 2.18) significantly higher than before the program (M = 3.13, SD = 1.42, Z = -4.394, p < .001) and higher than that of the control group (M = 3.04, SD = 1.04, Z = -5.703, p < .001).
The results show that the participatory learning enhancement program resulted in the parents having accurate early childhood development assessment skills. This will affect the quality of life of children in the long run.
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