The School Readiness Differences Of Child Who Will Be Entering The Elementary School In Samarinda

ABSTRACT School readiness becomes important since a child who has had readiness for school will have benefits and progress in further developments. While the children who do not have the readiness will result in frustration when placed in an academic environment. Early childhood education in Indonesia has grown in vary one of the differences is in hours of learning in the classroom. The objective To analyze the differences in school readiness of children entering primary school level from kindergarten with study hours 900 minutes per week and more than 900 minutes per week. Methods This study was an observational-analytic study and used cross-sectional study design. The study was conducted on two populations of final preschool children with hours of learning of 900 minutes per week and more than 900 minutes per week. Results The final Preschool children with learning hours 900 minutes per week and more than 900 minutes per week were fell almost entirely into the category of well-prepared which were as many as 37 respondents 63.6 and 31 respondents 96.9 but for hours of learning of more than 900 minutes the same category fell for almost 100. P-value of 0.001 indicated that there was relationship between the length of study with readiness to attend primary school level. Development in motor cognitive social emotion and language can be used to observe school readiness of children. The result of regression test showed that these differences lied as results of the different stimulation provided by parents the status of working of mothers and different learning system from each school. Things that can be performed by the parents are to constantly put concern to each child since it will result to a better preparation. For early childhood educators they should continue to improve the quality and quantity of the implementation of early childhood education as well as for the government that should provide wider information to rural areas.