EFFECT OF MOTOR SKILL TRAINING PROGRAMME ON MOTOR PROFICIENCY IN 8 -10 YEAR OLD CHILDREN

Ms. Jesmy Jose and Mr. Sudheesh C S

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of motor skill training programme on motor proficiency in the 8- 10 year old children. To achieve this, 70 children were randomly selected (N=70) from the summer camp conducted in LNCPE, Trivandrum. All the subjects were randomly divided in to two groups with 35 each as experimental and control group. Experimental group underwent motor skill training programme for a period of 8 weeks. The variables selected for the study were speed and agility, balance, upper limb coordination, strength and bilateral coordination. The test item selected for this study was short form of Bruininks Oseretsky test for motor proficiency (BOTMP). The dependant‘t’ test was applied to determine the difference between the means of two groups. To find out whether there was any significant difference between the experimental and control groups on adjusted post test means the analysis of covariance was used. To test the level of significance of difference between the means 0.05 level of significance was fixed. It was concluded that, there was a significant improvement takes place on all the dependant variables and also there was a significant difference exists between experimental and control group.
Keywords: Physical Activity, Motor Proficiency, Motor Skill Training, Bilateral coordination, Upper Limb Coordination