Assessing the life skills of elementary school students from the perspective of teachers and principals in Kermanshah.

The aim of this study was to investigate the status of life skills of students in elementary school from the perspective of teachers and principals of Kermanshah. The research is combined and consists of two parts: qualitative and quantitative. The first part of the research is qualitative and its method is descriptive and includes; Document analysis as well as content analysis with a practical approach. The analytical community included texts and resources related to the field of life skills, among which 20 internal sources were identified and analyzed. To collect information, a checklist (life skills checklist) was used and measurement tools, a fish-taking form, and a content analysis checklist were developed by the researcher. In the second part, the research method was quantitative. There were public schools in Kermanshah from which 100 people were selected using multi-stage cluster sampling method.The data collection tool in this section was a researcher-made questionnaire.To ensure the face validity of this questionnaire, several Educational experts reviewed it and approved it after making some corrections, and then the validity of the questionnaire structure was reviewed and confirmed.The research results indicate that based on the studied sources for life skills in Three sections of knowledge (4 main themes) in ability (11 main themes) and attitude (7 main themes) and a total of 69 categories were obtained.The results also showed that the current situation of life skills in primary school is not appropriate.