The Activities Based on the Concept of the Matal Program to Promote Observation Skills of Early Childhood Children

Abstract

 This research is a comparative study of the observation skills of early childhood children before and after the conceptual activities of the Matal program. It is a quasi-experimental research. The sample group used in this research was male and female preschool children aged 3-4 years studying in Kindergarten 1, semester 2 of the Academic Year 2020 at the Demonstration School of Chaiyaphum Rajabhat University. Chaiyaphum Province, The samples were obtained by cluster random sampling. The researcher observed early childhood children before the experiment from normal learning management for a period of 1 week. The tools used in the experiment were validated by 3 experts. The conformity index was of 0.873 which was acceptable. The tools consisted of 32 activities plan based on the concept of the Matal program. The implementing activities were based on the concept of the Matal program. The observation period of preschool children was of 8 weeks, 4 days a week, 20-30 minutes per day. A total of 32 trials was performed. In addition, early childhood children were observed for a week after the experiment. The statistics used in the data analysis was percentage, mean, standard deviation and t-test. After organizing activities according to the concept of the Matal program, it was found that all early childhood children’ observation skills had statistically higher at the .05 level than before joining the activities.