Learning Center Experience Management to Promote Self-Regulation Behaviors of Early Childhood

Abstract

          The purpose of this research was to compare the self-regulated behaviors of early childhood before and after conducting learning center experience management. The sample used in the research was 20 students of kindergarten year 2 who were studying at Watnernsutthawas Municipality School (Suttipongprachanukul) Chonburi Town Municipality in the second semester of 2024 academic year. The experiment was carried out 24 times within the period of 8 weeks (3 days per week). The research instruments were lesson plans and the observation form for self-regulated behaviors of early childhood with the index of consistency (IOC) between 0.67–1.00, the corrected item – total correlation (CITC) between 0.45–0.75, the rater agreement index (RAI) of 0.90 and the reliability for the whole paper (Cronbach’s Alpha) of 0.87. The research was pre-experimental design followed by one-group pretest- posttest design. The data was statistically analyzed by using mean and standard deviation.

            The research results were summarized that the posttest scores on self-regulated behaviors after conducting learning center experience management were higher than those before learning center experience management, with statistical significance at the level of 0.05.