Open AccessInvestigation of cognitive, psychomotor and social emotional progress in primary schools by directors’ ideas
Author(s) -
Huseyin Tehdit
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of innovative research in education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2421-8162
DOI - 10.18844/ijire.v7i1.5548
Subject(s) - psychomotor learning , christian ministry , psychology , cognition , curriculum , medical education , qualitative research , content analysis , pedagogy , mathematics education , medicine , social science , sociology , political science , neuroscience , law
The aim of this study was to identify the ideas of the directors about the progress of cognitive, psychomotor and social-emotional skills of the primary fifth-grade teaching programme. This study is qualitative and it is conducted by case study and intertwined case patterns. A total of 12 directors (7 principals and 5 assistant principals) participated in this study who are working in schools in Nicosia district. These schools are linked to the Ministry of Education. Data were collected by semi-structured interviews and were analysed by content analysis. According to the results of this study, students studying in the fifth grade reached the teaching programme’s aims, i.e., 59.83% in the cognitive domain, 42.2% in the psychomotor domain and 76.52% in the social-emotional progress domain. The negative reasons of these results respectively are teachers, individual differences, teaching programme, curriculum incompatibility, lack of infrastructure and college exams.
Keywords: Cognitive development, teaching programme, psychomotor development (motor), social-emotional development (affective).