A Study on Learning Outcomes of the Children in ECCE centres of Eastern West Khasi Hills Mairang District

Abstract

Early childhood education often focuses on children learning through play. It is learning about the development of young children and teaches these young children from birth to age of four about basic knowledge of cognitive, social, emotional and physical skills. The aim of ECCE is that every child should be assured access to the fulfilment of all basic needs. It involves the total development of the child in every aspect including the physical, psychomotor, cognitive, language, emotional, social and moral. The objective of the study is to find out the learning outcomes of the children in ECCE centres. Learning outcome is the academic performance of the children in the ECCE centres. The learning outcomes allow us to understand the child’s cognitive level of understanding as the children are in the foundation stage of learning. The learning outcomes will give us the results of learning outcomes of the students in the centre. Education is an all round development of the child which begins right from the womb of our mother. This study investigated the study on learning outcomes of the children in ECCE centres of Eastern West Khasi Hills Mairang District of Meghalaya. The researcher adopted descriptive cum normative survey method and cross sectional research design for the completion of this study. The sample of 455 learners of ECCE centres was selected by making use of sample random sampling technique. The collected learning outcome scores were organised and analyzed by applying the descriptive statistics and t-test.