Investigation of the cognitive, psychomotor, and social emotional progress in primary schools by directors’ ideas

Abstract

The aim of this study is to identify the ideas of the directors about the progress of cognitive, psyhomotor, and social-emotional aims which are aimed in the primary fifth class teaching programme. This study is qualitative, and it is performed by case study and intertwined case pattern. 12 directors (7 principals and 5 assistant principals) has participated in this study who are working schools in Nicosia district. These schools are linked to the Ministry of Education. Data have been collected by a semi-structured interview. They have been analysed by content analysis. According to the results of this study students who are studying in fifth classes have been reached the teaching programme aims 59.83% in the cognitive domain, 42.2% in psychomotor domain, and 76.52% in social-emotional progress domain. The negative reasons for these results, respectively, are teachers, individual differences, teaching programmes, curriculum incompatibility, lack of infrastructure, and college exams.

Keywords: Cognitive development, teaching programme, psychomotor development (motor), social-emotional development (affective).