The Effect of Seljuk Cognitive Education Programme on Cognitive Development of Second and Third Grade Primary School Children

This research was studied with the purpose of analyzing the effect of “Seljuk Cognitive Education Programme” on cognitive development (language ability, shape-space ability, reasoning ability, discrimination ability,... [ view full abstract ]

This research was studied with the purpose of analyzing the effect of “Seljuk Cognitive Education Programme” on cognitive development (language ability, shape-space ability, reasoning ability, discrimination ability, numerical ability and general ability) of second and third grade primary school children. The Seljuk Cognitive Education Program is a training program consisting of 25 board games for cognitive development. One of the true experimental design, pre-test and post-test control group model was applied. 120 children (60 experimental, 60 control group) were included in the workgroup. As data gathering tools, general information form contains questions for children and parents and Thurston’s Primary Mental Abilities Test 7-11 in order to test statistically the effectiveness of Seljuk Cognitive Education Programme on cognitive development of second and third grade primary school children were used. Seljuk Cognitive Education Programme was applied “regularly and controlled” to the children selected to the experimental group in addition to experience in their environment during 12 weeks, 2 days a week and 1 hour per day that’s totally 24 hours by the investigator. In terms of research findings, it is determined that “Seljuk Cognitive Education Programme” is quite effective on cognitive development of children in the experimental group. Besides the language ability, shape-space ability, reasoning ability, discrimination ability, numerical ability and general ability of children in the experimental group developed at the end of The Seljuk Cognitive Education Program.

Keywords: Cognitive development,cognitive games, primary school education