@article{article_1729430, title={An investigation of primary school first-grade students’ print awareness and basic writing skills}, journal={Ordu Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Sosyal Bilimler Araştırmaları Dergisi}, volume={15}, pages={578–590}, year={2025}, DOI={10.48146/odusobiad.1729430}, author={Kuşdemir, Yasemin}, keywords={Yazı farkındalığı, okuryazarlık, yazma becerisi}, abstract={The aim of the study is to examine the print awareness and basic writing skills of first grade primary school students. The descriptive scanning method was preferred in the study. The study group consists of 116 (56 girls / 60 boys) first grade primary school students in Ankara. The Personal Information Form, Print Awareness Test, and Basic Writing Skills Test scales in the Early Literacy Development Determination Tool (ELDD) were used to collect data. There are 15 items in the Print Awareness Test and 16 test items in the Basic Writing Skills Test. The evaluation criteria of these tests are low, medium and high. After the necessary permissions were obtained, these tests were applied to each student individually in a total of four different sessions. It was checked whether the data met the normality assumption, and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilk tests were performed. The normality status was decided by examining the skewness-kurtosis coefficients of the scores obtained from the Print Awareness Scale and Basic Writing Skills Scale. Accordingly, Independent Samples t Test and ANOVA were used in the analysis of variables showing normal distribution; Mann Whitney-U Test and Kruskal Wallis-H Test were used in the analysis of variables not showing normal distribution. As a result of the analyses, it was determined that the print awareness of the first grade primary school students showed a high level with a difference of less than a medium level; and that their basic writing skills were at a high level. According to another result, it was revealed that the basic writing skills and print awareness of the first grade primary school students did not show a significant difference according to the gender variable. It was determined that the print awareness and basic writing skills of the first grade primary school students participating in the study showed a significant difference in the context of the variable of receiving pre-school education. According to another result of the study, the print awareness of the first grade primary school students differed significantly according to the socio-economic level.}, number={ISRIS 2025}, publisher={Ordu Üniversitesi}, organization={Kırıkkale Üniversitesi Bilimsel Araştırma Projeleri Koordinasyon Birimi}