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Utah State University

1969

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The Effect Of Nursery School Experience Upon Readiness Of Children In Kindergarten, Glenna C. Boyce May 1969

The Effect Of Nursery School Experience Upon Readiness Of Children In Kindergarten, Glenna C. Boyce

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The Metropolitan Readiness Test, 1964 edition, Form A, was administered to forty children who were enrolled in kindergarten classes in Logan, Utah, during the school year 1967-1968. Twenty of these children (nursery attenders) had attended the Utah State University Child Development Laboratory for at least two, but not more than three quarters with at least half of this nursery experience being during the year preceding kindergarten. The other 20 children (non-attenders) had not experienced any type of pre-school or day care program prior to kindergarten. The two groups were matched by pairs on age, sex, kindergarten teacher and socio-economic level …