THE EFFECT OF 8 WEEKS OF MOVEMENT TRAINING IN THE PRESCHOOL PERIOD ON PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN

Abstract

This study was conducted to examine whether the movement training program applied to preschool children is effective in psychomotor development. The study group of the research; A total of 32 people, 16 of whom were in control and 16 were in the experimental group, were educated at our Dream Kindergarten in Düzce. In order to determine the performances of preschool children, the test that includes "six motor skills" was used by Sevimay (1986) in his research on "Investigation of the Motor Performance of Preschool Children" in 1986. The data obtained in the research were analyzed using the SPSS 20.0 package program. Descriptive statistics test was used in distributions according to demographic characteristics among groups. Paired Samples t-test was applied to analyze the pre-test post-test results. Independent Samples t-test was used for binary group variables and One-Way ANOVA test was used for variables with three or more groups. The level of significance was set at p <0.05. As a result; It was observed that the movement training program applied to preschool children did not have a statistical effect on psychomotor development.