Effect of a Brain-based Learning Parent School Program on Knowledge and Promoting Child Development Behavior among Parent and Caregivers of Early Childhood in Cha-Am City Community, Phetchaburi Province
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This research is a quasi-experimental study which aims to study the effects of the parent school program according to the principles of brain development (Brain-based learning) in parents and early-childhood caregivers in the community of Cha-am municipality, Phetchaburi Province. The sample group consists of 60 parents and caregivers of children aged 6 months to 2 years 6 months. Research tools include 1) a school program for parents according to the principles of brain development “Raising smart, good and happy children at school for parents in the community” and 2) data collecting tools, namely “The confidence value of the Knowledge Questionnaire on Promotion of Early Childhood Development”, which has Kuder's Richardson confidence value of 20 equal to .78 and “The Early Childhood Development Promotion Behavior Questionnaire”, which has Cronbach's alpha coefficient confidence of .87..Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and paired sample t-test.
The results show that after receiving the program, the sample's knowledge and development promotion behaviour has increased significantly at the .01 level (t = 12.31, 15.61 respectively).
In conclusion, this research can be applied in organizing group activities for parents and early-childhood caregivers for the person in responsibility to have knowledge and behaviour to promote early childhood development. As a result, early childhood children have appropriate development for future growing to be quality adults.
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