Cognitive Development of Children Aged 4-7 Years During The Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Cognitive development is one aspect of child development that is very important to get intervention during the COVID-19 pandemic, Cognitive development is a development that is closely related to thinking skills, such as reasoning, memory, and the ability to solve practical problems. The cognitive mindset of early childhood is very much different from people who are teenagers and adults or even children who are in middle school and above. Elementary school age children have limitations in thinking about abstract things, cognitive development has a correlation with other developments and will have an impact especially on children's academic abilities. The purpose of this paper is to examine how the cognitive development of early childhood during the covid-19 pandemic and what strategies are carried out by parents in developing cognitive development of early childhood during the covid-19 pandemic? Based on the formulation of the problem above, the data analysis technique used in this study is an interactive model of data analysis in analysing the data carried out in three ways, namely data reduction activities, data presentation and also data conclusions. as well as parents. These results and discussions describe various issues related to cognitive development problems such as several barriers to children's activities and activities that have an impact on children's cognitive during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pangkalan Kuras District, Pelalawan Regency, Riau Province. In conclusion, this study aims to describe the cognitive development of early childhood during the COVID-19 pandemic and provide views regarding several activities that can be internalized to stimulate children's cognitive development.

Differential socioemotional and educational profiles in early childhood and primary education students in a lockdown situation

“…In addition to those mentioned above, similar correlations were obtained between leisure activities and family-school relationship; co-responsibility and family-school relationship, and emotional impact and academic performance. The results are supported by evidence that the family-school relationship is an indicator of family involvement in the educational process, which is generalized in other informal educational contexts, resulting in higher academic achievement and cognitive stimulation (Oktaviana and Srianggita, 2021). Furthermore, co-responsibility in the family evidences a sense of shared responsibility for education in both formal and informal settings.…”

“…Younger students usually receive more one-on-one attention from adults and are supervised more. Consequently, the quality and frequency of interactions between parents and children is more conducive to children's development by creating a motivating and stimulating learning environment (Oktaviana and Srianggita, 2021). Small effect sizes were shown in the other variables, whose direction showed greater resilience in Early Childhood Education students during lockdown (Giménez-Dasí et al, 2020;Egan et al, 2021).…”

Children's Future Adversity: Learning Loss Risk during Online Learning in Covid-19 Pandemic

“…With the COVID-19 pandemic, schools are moving to distance learning using various online learning apps and platforms (Alomyan, 2021). Implementation of distance learning has lasted almost two years, and education practitioners and observers in Indonesia have become concerned about critical students' learning loss (Oktaviana & Srianggita, 2021). Research conducted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology found that during the pandemic, students experienced a learning loss equivalent to six months and five months for literacy and numeracy, respectively.…”

Implementasi Penilaian Portofolio di Taman Kanak-kanak Era Pandemi COVID-19

“…Pemerintah saat ini berupaya menerapkan strategi dan metode pengajaran yang melalui guru-guru pendidikan anak usia dini (Oktaviana & Srianggita, 2021). Strategi dan metode pengajaran dilaksanakan secara daring.…”