Affiliation:
1. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Üniversitesi, Beden Eğitimi ve Spor
2. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Üniversitesi, Spor Bilimleri Fakültesi
Abstract
Motor skills are the physical elements that enable movement. Basic skills at an early age form the basis for activities that require much more complex motor skills specific to sports. These basic skills are called basic motor skills and include activities such as throwing, jumping, running, catching and hitting. Basic movement skills form the basis of sport-specific skills to be acquired later. In this respect, it is important to measure the basic movement skills of children and to monitor these skill levels. In this study, it was aimed to investigate the motor development levels of children aged 04-06 according to the Bruininks-Oseretsky test.
The population of the study consists of children between the ages of 4-6 attending kindergartens and nursery schools in Rize in 2018-2019 academic year. 286 healthy children, 150 males and 136 girls, were randomly chosen for the study's sample. The Bruininks-Oseretsky Motor Proficiency Test (BOT-2) was used in its abbreviated form for this experiment. Normality test was applied to the obtained data. It was observed that the data had normal distribution in some sub-groups and not normal distribution in some others. When comparing two independent groups in pairs, the t-test, or Mann-Whitney-U test, was used at a significance level of = 0,05, and the one-way ANOVA test, or Kruskal-Wallis H test, was used when comparing three or more groups.
Test results showed that the difference between the gross motor skill levels of the children by gender and age was significant (Z0.05;-3,538; p
Funder
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Üniversitesi BAP Birimi
Publisher
Milli Egitim Bakanligi Milli Egitim Dergisi
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