The investigation of the self-care capabilities of the students who have started pre-school education at the age of 3-4 and the students who have started pre-school education at the age of 5-6 depending on parents' views: The city of Uşak sample

In this research, depending on parents? views, it has been investigated whether or not there is a significiant difference in self-care capabilities of the students starting pre-school education at the age of 5-6 and the students starting pre-school education at the age of 3-4The research has been implemented in 2010-2011 education year spring term, with the parents of 153 students of 5-6 years old at 11 state elementary schools in Uşak city center and Eşme province and with 100 parents of students at 7 state and private schools in Uşak.In the research ?Pre-school Self-care Capability Scale? has been used to determine the level of the self-care capabilities of the students.The data obtained by data collection has been subjected to independent samples group t test and reliability analysis (cronbach alpha) by transferring to SPSS 19 package programmeAccording to the results, the level of acquiring the capability of eating food, keeping himself from danger, bathroom using habit, getting dressed, cleaning and system and order is seen to be in favour of the students starting pre-school education at the age of 3-4 with regards to those at the age of 5-6, except from system and order.