Review Of School Readiness Study

School readiness is the key characteristics needed by pre-school children to benefit from the coming formal education. It is concerned by developmental psychologists and educators since the 60s of last century. Currently, foreign research results of school readiness are rich, both the development of the concept or the design of intervention programs are more mature. But domestic research on school readiness has just started, it introduced the concept and study of school readiness western Since 2005.Given the importance of school readiness study and the weakness of domestic study, it is important to summarize foreign school readiness study .Four aspects of school readiness were introduced in this paper, including(1) Concept Development of children's school readiness and ecological model of school readiness defined by NEGP. (2) Development on assessment tools of school readiness, test content refers to five dimensions of childen's readiness for school through individual test,adult report or (3) Influential factors of children' s school readiness. (4) Intervention approaches of school readiness . Futher study should includes: the assessment system schould keep up with theoretical development; influencing factors of the school readiness should be examined through the longitudinal study; the relationship between intervention effect and intervention costs should been examined; other than macro-analysis based on 5-domain model, micro-analysis for special component should be emphasised.