*Associate Professor Principal (Off.), CIS Kanya Mahavidyalaya, Pundri.
**Asstt Professor, DAVIM, Faridabad.
The present paper is an experimental study designed to develop a programme for measuring and enhancing learning abilities of 4–6 years old pre-school children attending ‘angnwadis’. This study involved manipulated ‘anganwadi’ activity programme as the independent variable and cognitive development status of children as dependent variable. This special activity programme was based on selected concepts (verbal, perception, quantitative, memory and spatial relations) and operations. This special activity programme was offered to children of Experimental Group I and Experimental Group II, while the Control Group children were not provided any intervention. It was hypothesized that stimulation packages would have impact on learning abilities of Experimental Group Children. Results of the study support this hypothesis as there was significant improvement in cognitive development of the children of both the Experimental Groups after receiving intervention. Mean gain in different aspects of cognition was computed for three study groups. It was found that mean gain in all these aspects of experiment groups was significantly higher than those of control group children. However significant differences were also observed between two experimental groups for general cognition, verbal, perception and memory aspects.
