Effect of pre-school education on creativity, language skills and academic achievement first grade of primary school Minab

Pages: 238-241
Mohammad Karimi (Preschool Education, Arsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arsanjan, Iran)
Mohammad Hasan Rezaei (Department of Educational Sciences Darab Branch, Islamic Azad, University, Darab, Iran)
Jahangir Mehr Afsha (Department of Educational Sciences Arsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arsanjan, Iran)

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of preschool education on creativity, language skills and academic achievement of first-grade students, respectively. For this reason a sample of 80 subjects (40 men and 40 women without a history of pre-school preschool) Minab city male students were selected by multistage sampling. Torrance creativity tests, told-p test of language development and academic achievement tests were analyzed. The results of t-test for independent samples and Mann-Whitney test showed that students who had received pre-school education the three variables tested higher than students who did not receive this training achieved and this difference was statistically significant.