Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15516/cje.v21i3.3008
Visual Motor Integration in Children Aged 6 to 10 Years
Tonči Bavčević
; University of Split, Faculty of Kinesiology
Damir Bavčević
; University of Split, Faculty of Kinesiology
Ivana Bavčević
; University of Split, Faculty of Kinesiology
Abstract
The results presented in this paper were obtained from research on the development of visual motor integration in children aged 6 to 10 years. The sample of participants comprised 163 primary school children, 92 boys and 71 girls from grade 1 to grade 4. Micromotor efficiency of graphomotor type was assessed by the use of a test for the evaluation of visual motor integration (VMI). The obtained results showed constant progression in the field of graphomotor skills in children. A statistically significant point of increase of visual motor integration has been found between children in the first and second grade, in both boys and girls. The results also showed a statistically significant difference in graphomotor skills between first graders in favour of girls. The findings imply significance of the developmental period between the ages of 6 and 7 in the process of visual motor integration in the field of graphomotor skills as an integrative part of the ontogenetic development.
Keywords
fine motor skills; graphomotor skills; ontogenetic development; primary education.
Hrčak ID:
227509
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Publication date:
26.9.2019.
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