Psychological aspects of home preparation during the first two years of school attendance

Psychological aspects of home preparation during the first two years of school attendance L. Sulova, M. Skrabova The paper deals with preliminary results of Czech part of Czech-French-Canadian research. In this study, only results of children from the first and second grades are presented. The research is focusing on the home preparation for the school. The children's attitudes to home preparation for the school, pupils' perceived self-efficacy, self-regulation rate, and also the perceived help from the parent during the home preparation are followed-up. The authors were also interested in differences in assessed variables between boys and girls. In order to understand better the relations among the variables the regression analyses was carried out. It showed that the differences in children's feeling to be successful in school are determined mostly by the behavioral strategies for carrying out the homework adopted by children during the first two years of school attendance. Further it was found that the differences in children self-regulation are determined mainly by the children's feeling about the homework, and by children's perceived self-efficacy.