Enhancing Assessment Abilities of Early Childhood Education Teachers through Training and Promotion of Self-Regulated Learning as Soft Skills Required in the Evaluation of Child Development in Indonesia

Abstract

This study discusses the importance of enhancing assessment abilities of early childhood education teachers through basic training and promoting self-regulated learning as necessary skills required in the guidance of child development. The study aimed to determine the differences in educators’ ability to assess child development as per online and conventional education and training; to determine the effect of the interaction between types of training and self-regulated learning on the ability of educators in assessing child development; to find out the difference in the ability of educators' assessment of child development in online education and training for educators who have high self-regulated learning. Theories that underlie this research include the concepts of Training, Blended Learning, Self Regulated Learning, and of course, Child Development Assessment. This research is an ex post facto study which describes the relationship between a behavior treatment with a naturally occur variable of basic training and self-regulated learning, as well as child development assessment ability as a moderator variable (level). The study revealed that there is a significant difference in the score on ability to assess children's development between basic online training and conventional basic education and training. This establihsed that the score for ability to assess children's development has a significant difference between high self-regulated learning and low self-regulated learning.