Acquiring educational skills and their relationship to attention deficit among first-grade students, both those enrolled and those not enrolled in kindergarten.

Abstract

The objectives of this study are to identify the level of acquiring instructional skills and attention distraction among first-grade basic school students, and to know the statistically significant differences in the level of acquiring instructional skills and attention distraction among first-grade basic school students according to the variable of kindergarten enrollment (enrolled - non-enrolled) and the variable of gender (male - female), and to know the relationship between acquiring instructional skills and attention distraction among first-grade basic school students. In this study, the descriptive correlational method was used. The study sample consisted of (158) first-grade basic school teachers in the Erbil Central Directorate of Education for the academic year (2025-2026), who were selected purposively. The study relied on the scales of (Bartawi, 2024) for acquiring instructional skills, which consists of (18) items, and the scale of (Mohammad, 2021) for attention distraction, which consists of (34) items. After using the statistical tools consisting of (percentage, t-test for one sample, t-test for two independent samples, Pearson correlation coefficient), through the statistical program (SPSS) to analyze the data, the study reached the following results:

1.    First-grade basic school students have a high level of acquiring instructional skills.

2.    First-grade basic school students have a noticeable level of attention distraction.

3.    There is a statistically significant difference in the level of acquiring instructional skills and attention distraction among first-grade basic school students according to the variable of kindergarten enrollment, in favor of enrolled students for the instructional skills acquisition scale, and in favor of non-enrolled students for the attention distraction scale.

4.    There is no statistically significant difference in the level of acquiring instructional skills and attention distraction among first-grade basic school students according to the gender variable (male - female).

5.    There is a relationship between acquiring instructional skills and attention distraction among first-grade basic school students.

In light of the above results, the researcher presented several recommendations and suggestions.