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International Teacher Education Conference 2014
nutritional habit means that an individual takes necessary amount of nutrition. .Proper diet is so important for
psychical and mental development of children especially for those who are infant. Sometimes, nutritional habit,
necessary thing to man to survive, comes up as a vital educational problem. The child, who doesn’t have
breakfast habit, will have some kind of problems such as starvation, tiredness, weakness in school. These
problems will pose a big obstacle to focus in activities. Since hungry one has low level of energy, it will affect
even the social life of the person.
The Objective of the Study
Target of this study is comparing in terms of habit training of first grade students who went to the Nursery
School and students that didn’t go the preschool in 2012-2013 school year in Malatya
The importance of the Study
Early childhood, known as golden years of the life is the most critical period to get some habits, shaping our
life and to ensure continuity of these habits .In this period, giving planned and systematical training of habits
may help children to make good habits, expected by society, turn into behaviors in the next years. There are not
so many studies about commitment of students who took their training from educational establishment, giving
this training in a planned and systematical way. Drawing attention to the importance of habit training, given in
preschool education, is aimed with this study.
Problem Sentence
Are there any explicit differences in habits between first grade students who went to the preschool and those
who didn’t go in 2012-2013 school year in Malatya?
Assumptions of the study
It is assumed that students’ parents who take place in the study ,give correct answer to the quantitative data
collection vehicle and answer should be related to the subject of the study .
Limitedness of the study: In the study ,Students were chosen by random sampling way from 5 different
schools’ 1 st grade students in Malatya.45 students taken preschool and 45 students not taken preschool were
given call for their parents and 80 of them returned call. The study is restricted with 80 students whose parent
return call.
Method
Research Model: This study has the characteristic of Survey modeling. Survey Model is a research approach
aiming to describe a situation which was existent in the past or it is still existent with its existing form .Case ,
individual or object being subject to the study are defined with their own situation and as they is(Karasar,2002)
Population and Sample
1 st grade students studying 2012-2013 spring semester of school year in Malatya constitute population for this
study. Since it is not possible to reach the whole population, Sampling is chosen to be carried out and 5
elementary school in Malatya is taken as sample due to their reliability and convenience .90 students, some of
whom went to Preschool and some didn’t are asked to fill in the questionnaire in these schools and this research
includes 80 of them who accepted to take part in the survey .40 of them went to the preschool and 40 of them
didn’t.
Data Collection Tool
The first thing done in the study is literature review and field study and survey methods were used to reach
the information. A questionnaire were formed which had been never used before to survey habits that students
obtain in the preschool period. The questionnaire was subjected to the applied pre assessment .Acceptability and
reliability of the questionnaire were tested. According to results ,2 questions were changed and acceptability was
realized .In The study, Habits were categorized in 6 sub-category .These are Cleaning Habit(skin ,face ,hand,
foot ,hair, mouth and dental),dressing habit, Toilet habit, sleep and rest habit, habit of obeying social rules .Each
Sub-category consists of 5 article and 4 point likert scale was used. In the scale, expressions ”Never”,
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