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Chapter 5 - Early Screening for School Readiness

Is It Possible?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2025

Moshe Israelashvili
Moshe Israelashvili
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Tel Aviv University
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Data on children’s behavior in early childhood can predict the child’s behavior as an adult. Hence, there is an assumption that preliminary evaluation of a child’s skills and other capacities (e.g., behavior at preschool or kindergarten) will predict the child’s ability to adjust to school. Accordingly, efforts are made to measure children’s individual capacities (“human capital”) and use it to evaluate the child’s “personal maturity” and preparedness for the transition to elementary school. Gradually, it has been recognized that attention should be given not only to the child’s capacities but also to the school capacities. This is the essence of measurement and intervention in the domain of “school readiness.” Thus, responsibility for successful adjustment to elementary school is the responsibility of the school and not only a matter of the child’s characteristics. This change also requires a shift from a psychometric assessment that measures children at a certain point of time to an edumetric assessment that pursues evaluation of the child’s capability to meet the required standards assuming that proper measures and activities are undertaken to enable it.

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developmentmaturityschool readinessearly childhoodkindergartensocioemotional learningparents’ anxiety

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Why Some Students Fade and Others Flourish
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