Influence of a childish games program on motor coordination in students of basic education

Abstract

The body structure of the schoolboy aged between seven and eight years is constantly growing and the physical education teacher can become a factor to enhance the development of his Motor Coordination (CM); through intervention programs he could help improve their physical, social and academic skills. The objective of this research work was to establish the influence of a childish games program on such coordination in a sample of 96 second-grade students from a Colombian school, with an average age of 7.56 0.5 years. The methodology included a quasi-experimental design. The data were collected with the Capon test on the schoolchildren who made up two groups: experimental and control. The information was processed with the Geogebra software. The results of the pre-Test showed low levels in the CM of the participants; while, the post-Test scores generated significant differences and reflected percentages of improvement close to 68% in said coordination for the experimentation group (p .05), as a product of having applied the childish games program. In conclusion, this program has a favorable influence, producing a notable increase in the CM of schoolchildren and generating additional information to formulate student intervention programs based on this type of games.