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Systems of education in different countries usually make psychological assessments of incoming first grade students to primary schools to be able to adjust their educational curriculum to special needs of the students. In our country, a project entitled "assessing physical health & school readiness" conducted from 1996 for incoming fist grade students. This project focuses on students' individual information, family situation, and physical health of the students as well as a brief assessment of their school readiness via some assessment approaches. The review studies carried out through investigating the modern approaches and new researches concerning the psychological assessment of incoming first grade school students indicate that our educational system's attempts in this field, compared with the international advanced psychological assessment of incoming students and with the goals of these assessments have great shortages and it is vital that some scientific, developmental and applicable research to be done to create a change.
Type of Study:
Review Article |
Subject:
General Received: 2014/Sep/Tue | Revised: 2014/Dec/Wed | Accepted: 2014/Sep/Tue | Published: 2014/Sep/Tue | ePublished: 2014/Sep/Tue