Filipino measure
The Philippine measure is a decision-making aid that is no longer recognized today for recognizing a child's school readiness .
She assumes that the change in the proportions of head size and arm length during the first change in shape in the sense of the Berlin pediatrician Walter Zeller is a sign of school readiness.
If the arm is placed over the top of the head while the head is vertical, the fingertips should reach the ear on the other side of the body. At the time the term was coined in the first half of the 20th century, this correlation between physical and mental development may have existed. However, school medical examinations have shown that school beginners are eight to ten centimeters taller than they were then and thus also reach this level earlier.
"H. Hummel was the first to refer to the method used by the Filipinos in a paper , “which is where it gets its name from.
swell
- Rose Riecke-Niklewski / Günter Niklewski: school child 5–12 years; Stiftung Warentest 2004; ISBN 3-931908-91-7
- Definition of terms
- Michael Ready / Jochen Kluve, The effect of the school age on educational success in Germany Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI) Essen (PDF; 454 kB)
- Press release from the Nuremberg Education Authority
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. phil. Hans Zantop: Characteristics of school readiness . In: Swiss teacher newspaper . tape 69 , no. 3 , 1965, p. 59 .