A STUDY ON THE EARLY NUMERACY SKILLS DEVELOPMENT OF GRADE 1 STUDENTS
Abstract
- The main aim of the present study is to assess the early numeracy skills development of Grade 1 students. In this study, quantitative approach was used. The participants were 100 Grade 1 students in No (1) Basic Education High School (Branch) in Katha Township. Scale for Early Numeracy Skills of Grade 1 Students (ENS-G1) was used as the instrument. It consists of 61 items and is divided into 7 sub-scales: (1) Oral Counting (OC), (2) Number Identification (NI), (3) Number Discrimination (ND), (4) Missing Number (MN), (5) Order Plan (OP), (6) Measurement (M), and (7) Computation (C). Alpha reliability for ENS-G1 was 0.85. In this study, descriptive statistics of the early numeracy skills development results indicated that, the mean percentage result was the highest in Number Identification and Quantity Discrimination sub-scales, and the lowest in Measurement sub-scale. Therefore, it can be said that Grade 1 students can perform Number Identification and Quantity Discrimination sub-scales better than other sub-scales. And then, the results of t-test on the sub-scales of the early numeracy skills development of Grade 1 students by gender revealed that there was no gender difference for the whole early numeracy skills test. This is an important finding because it highlights that difference in early numeracy skills development is not necessarily due to gender. To investigate the mean differences of the early numeracy skills development of Grade 1 students by age group, independent samples t-test was conducted and it became apparent that there were significant mean differences in Order Plan and Measurement sub-scales at 0.01 level and 0.05 level respectively whereas the others dimensions were not significantly different. According to the results, it was found that 7-year-old students developed more on the Order Plan sub-scale and Measurement sub-scale than 6-year-old students.
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Year
- 2024
Author
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Thet Su Maung
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Publisher
- Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science (MAAS)