Abstract
The topic of this study addresses preliminary results of the Czech part of a Czech-French-Canadian study. Owing to the scope of the research this study only presents results of children in the 1stand 2nd grade.
This study focuses on home preparation for school. The observed criteria are children's attitudes to home preparation for school, perceived success of school children, their degree of self-regulation, and children's perceived assistance with home preparation on the part of the parents.
We were also interested in the differences between boys and girls in the observed variables. To understand better the relationships between the variables, we performed a regression analysis which showed that the differences in the degree that a child feels successful at school are mainly determined by the type of behavioural strategy a child adopts in connection with homework (""HW"") during the first years of school attendance.
Furthermore we established that differences in children's self-regulation are chiefly determined by children's feelings in connection with HW and children's perceived success.