Comparative analysis of the psychomotive evaluation between children physically trained and not trained

Abstract

The main objective of this research was to compare the results of the psychomotor evaluation between two groups of students, both belonging to the same school, in the city of Uruguaiana / RS. The present study analyzed 42 girls, aged between 11 and 13 years old, all from the Dom Hermeto State High School, in the municipality of Uruguaiana, and each group was composed of 21 girls, all from different classes and years. Among the 42 girls, 10 were of the 5th grade, 17 of the 6th grade and 15 of the 7th grade, all classes of the morning shift. The instrument used in this research, besides a mini-questionnaire to identify the history of the sports life of the students, was the BPM of Fonseca (1995), which provides a protocol for solving the student's psychomotor profile through the evaluation of seven factors psychomotors (Tonicity and Equilibration, Lateralization, Body Notion and Spatial-Temporal Structuring, Global Praxia and Fine Praxia). The results were in agreement with the objectives and the problems of this research, which demonstrated the possibility of measuring whether sports training provides above-normal psychomotor development for physically trained children when compared to untrained children. With this research we can demonstrate that sports practice from the earliest years of elementary education and from the primary in early childhood education can help children with motor learning difficulties. The average of the psychomotor profile of the trained students was 5.81% higher than the average of the untrained students. This study demonstrated the possible difference and elucidation of some of the benefits of practicing sports or any other physical activity since childhood.