Evaluación del grado de madurez intelectual de los niños/as de primero de básica y elaboración de una propuesta metodológica de articulación entre el nivel de educación inicial al básico de las escuelas: Carlos Rigoberto Vintimilla, Pío XII, El Rosal, Juan Bautista Aguirre, Padre Juan Carlo, Carolina de Febres Cordero, José María Astudillo, del Área de Salud Nº 2, Cuenca, 2011

Abstract

This investigation has the objetive to make an intervention plan evaluating the level of intellectual maturity on children of Elementary school, in order to create this intervention plan to make all Kinder Garden children able to go on to first grade (Elementary School)on the same level of knowledge. This intervention plan has its own teaching materials that offer children support in the areas of greatest difficulty considering the basis of Vigotsky’s theories of development and Language Development of children. We start with the results of information gathered through surveys related to the knowledge of teaching techniques, on how to evaluate children with different tests on teachers of public schools that participate in this investigation. On the second phase of the investigation we evaluate the level of intellectual maturity of 233 children of first grade with the Badyg-A test, of schools named Carlos Rigoberto Vintimilla, Pio XII, El Rosal, Juan Bautista Aguirre, Padre Juan Carlo, Carolina de Febres Cordero, José María Astudillo.of Health area number 2. For the tabulation of results will be used SPSS 11.5 database and the results are presented in tables and graphs. The result obtained showed deficiencies on the next areas of the test: puzzle, auditory perception, intellectual maturity, verbal, nonverbal mental ability and perception motor coordination graph. Considering this we have designed this plan to improve the language, vocabulary and improve reasoning and problem solving of children. Keywords Surveys, language development, intellectual maturity, education, academic institutions, methods.