The effect of movement education program on motor skills of children

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2016

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Kamla-Raj Enterprises

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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess

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The aim of this study was to contribute to the improvement of basic motor skills of pre-school children between the ages 4-6 with the help of a movement education program. Another purpose was to provide support to the activity development of a pre-school educational program. Participation was voluntary and 70 children (experimental group=35 and control group=35) took part in this study. The control group attended regular pre-school educational program while the experimental group was given movement education program for an academic year (3 days a week, 1 hour for each day). Paired sample t-test for the assessment of pre and post-tests was used between groups. Independent sample t-test was used for intergroup comparisons. Results show a significant difference for experimental and control group, (p<0.01) for motor skills. As a result, it was found in this research which was carried out to investigate motor development of children between 4-6 years old that education programme caused a significant difference in motor development children in experimental group. Consequently, it was determined that education programme positively affected motor development properties of children. © Kamla-Raj 2016.

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Motor development; Physical education program for children

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Studies on Ethno-Medicine

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Q3

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10

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4

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