Enhancing visual-motor integration and visual perception of 6-year-old children

IF 0.8 Q3 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Elna van der Merwe, Catelen Briedenhann, Bianka Reyneke
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Background: Perceptual motor development is crucial during early childhood and not properly addressing it in physical education (PE) can be detrimental.Aim: To determine the effect of a South African curriculum-aligned PE intervention on the visual-motor integration (VMI), visual perception (VP) and motor coordination (MC) of 6-year-old children.Setting: Quintile 3 schools in Mangaung, Free State Province, South Africa.Methods: Grade 1 children from two quintile 3 schools in Mangaung were recruited. Complete data sets were obtained for 44 participants. A quantitative randomised control trial design was followed. The Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration, Sixth Edition (Beery VMI-6), determined participants’ VMI, VP and MC during the pre- and post-tests. The KaziKidz toolkit was used as intervention during 10 sessions of 40 min each for the experimental group, while the control group continued with the South African PE curriculum. The Fisher’s exact and Kruskal–Wallis tests were used for pre- and post-test comparisons, with p  0.05 indicating statistical significance.Results: The median age of the control (n = 18) and intervention (n = 26) groups was 6.7 and 6.5 years, respectively. Post intervention, the intervention group displayed significantly improved VMI (p = 0.042) and VP (p  0.001), compared to the control group. No significant differences between the groups were observed for MC.Conclusion: Exposure to PE including perceptual motor aspects significantly improved the VMI and VP of 6-year-old children.Contribution: Results deemed the KaziKidz toolkit to be a successful mode of PE delivery to improve the perceptual skills of Grade 1 learners in South Africa.
提高 6 岁儿童的视觉运动整合能力和视觉感知能力
背景:感知运动的发展在幼儿期至关重要,如果在体育课中不适当地解决这一问题,可能会造成损害。目的:确定南非课程调整体育干预对 6 岁儿童视觉-运动整合(VMI)、视觉感知(VP)和运动协调(MC)的影响:地点:南非自由州曼冈市的三等分学校:方法:招募曼岗两所三等分学校的一年级儿童。获得了 44 名参与者的完整数据集。采用定量随机对照试验设计。第六版Beery-Buktenica视觉-运动统合发展测试(Beery VMI-6)在测试前和测试后测定了参与者的VMI、VP和MC。实验组使用 KaziKidz 工具包进行干预,共 10 节课,每节课 40 分钟,对照组继续使用南非体育课程。测试前后的比较采用费雪精确检验和 Kruskal-Wallis 检验,P 0.05 表示统计学意义:对照组(18 人)和干预组(26 人)的年龄中位数分别为 6.7 岁和 6.5 岁。干预后,与对照组相比,干预组的 VMI(p = 0.042)和 VP(p 0.001)均有明显改善。结论:结论:接触包括感知运动方面在内的体育活动可明显改善 6 岁儿童的 VMI 和 VP:贡献:研究结果表明,KaziKidz 工具包是提高南非一年级学生感知能力的成功体育教学模式。
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South African Journal of Childhood Education
South African Journal of Childhood Education EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-
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