From Home to Classroom: Exploring Caregiver Perspectives on Preschool Readiness and Resilience in Buea, Cameroon
Bibliographic record
Abstract
School readiness ensures a successful home to school transition. However, not much is known about physical readiness. This study explores parental perceptions of physical school readiness and resilience in preschool children. Qualitative data (n = 20) were collected through interviews from the sample drawn purposively using snowball in Cameroon. Parents and teachers of 3-to-5-year-old children were asked to provide perceptions of child physical readiness and their implications on resilience. Results from thematic and content analysis revealed that physically ready children exhibited autonomous gross and fine motor abilities. Caregivers described mental resilience as persistence in the face of difficulty. They reported concern for bullying when their children showed lack of physical readiness, self-confidence, coordination, and cognitive skills. Other conditions such as stunted growth and being overly-pampered by caregivers were presented as diminishing resilience. Providing an enabling yet safe environment that facilitates optimal motor skills is viewed as enhancing school readiness and resilience.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".