Table 1 Assessment of development of preschool children based on “Bavarian School Entry Model” *
Main areas of skills | Subareas of skills | Tests | |
|---|---|---|---|
Biomedical assessment | motor | gross motor | standing on one leg, jumping on one leg, going like a rope dancer, going with clapping hands |
fine body coordination | finger- opposition-test, drawing different figures and of persons | ||
grapho-motor coordination | |||
speech | pronunciation | repeating words | |
grammar | retelling a short story, explaining rules of a known game | ||
rhythm of speech | repeating longer sentences | ||
cognition | memory and concentration | repeating sentences with 7–10 words including three adjectives; repeating four single numbers in correct sequences | |
perseverance | discontinuity of capacity to attend during the examination | ||
abstraction | building pairs, finding a subject of various objects belonging together | ||
visual perception | reception and knowing of simple geometric figures or silhouettes of figures and animals | ||
arithmetic | counting form 1 to 10 in correct sequences | ||
Psychological assessment | psychosocial | behaviour | erratic, overly bonded mother (no separation possible during examination?), hostility towards examiner |
emotionality | major mood | ||
psycho- motor | agitation, inability of sitting calmly during examination |