The assessment of eye-hand coordination of students during the pandemic

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Abstract The pandemic was a difficult time for everyone, both students and teachers, and the adaptation to the online environment was different. Because physical tests for motor skills assessment were more difficult to perform, one aspect of online assessment was eye-hand coordination. The purpose of this study is to find an alternative to the assessment of psychomotor skills (especially eye-hand coordination) in the online environment during the pandemic. For the elaboration of the study, we established the following hypotheses: H1: There are gender differences in eye-hand coordination H2: Instruments used in the online environment cause changes in assessment eye-hand coordination Material and methods The assessment was done by applying specific online tests that allowed participants to self-assess. The study was attended by 80 students (40F, 40B) from the "Sport High School Szasz Adalbert" from Targu Mures, Romania. The study was conducted during the 2020-2021 school year. The tests for eye–hand coordination were Sequence memory test, Chimp test, Aim trainer, Typing, Verbal memory, Number memory, Visual memory, and Reaction Time and which were conducted on the site www.humanbenchmark.com. Subjects participated voluntarily in this study and must submit online, by completing a table in Excel, the results of specific tests for initial and final assessment. Results The Excel database was exported to Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS 24 I.B.M. for Windows). It included descriptive statistics of mean, standard deviation, and the frequency of occurrence expressed in absolute values or percentages. A T test for independent sample and T-test for pair sample was applied. The results obtained were significant for p-value under 0.05 Conclusion Hypothesis H1 that there are gender differences in terms of hand-eye coordination- the obtained results deny this. Only 2 tests out of 8 showed that there are significant differences between boys and girls. In this case, we can say that the hypothesis is not confirmed. Regarding the second hypothesis H2, if there are improvements in hand-eye coordination between the two moments of the test, we can say that yes, there are, and this is confirmed in the result of both girls and boys. So the hypothesis is confirmed.