scholarly journals Utilization of a Mobile Application for Motor Skill Evaluation in Children

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 663
Author(s):  
David Moreno Naya ◽  
Francisco J. Vazquez-Araujo ◽  
Paula M. Castro ◽  
Jamile Vivas Costa ◽  
Adriana Dapena ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Motor Skills ◽  
Motor Skill ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Motor Coordination ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
Motor Difficulties ◽  
Skill Evaluation

The detection of needs in educational reinforcement must be done in the early stages of childhood during primary education to improve the acquisition of motor skills. An adequate early intervention can solve some detected difficulties, thus contributing to children’s motor progress and mitigating possible deficiencies such as weak motor coordination. In this work, we present a mobile application (app) that allows physiotherapists to design activities for the evaluation of motor skills. These activities can be adapted to the child’s progress and the corresponding reinforcement needs. We tested the app with children from ages 6 to 12, corresponding to the six primary school grades. The results show that these children did not have notable motor difficulties, although children in lower primary school years showed a higher level of error in movement precision. The results allow us to establish reference values for a future comparison with collectives with motor difficulties.

scholarly journals Mobile Application for Analysing the Development of Motor Skills in Children

Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
David Moreno Naya ◽  
Francisco J. Vazquez-Araujo ◽  
Paula M. Castro ◽  
Jamile Vivas Costa ◽  
Adriana Dapena ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Motor Skills ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Motor Coordination ◽  
Physical Activities ◽  
Healthy Population ◽  
Education Centre

This work presents a mobile application to complement and reinforce the specific physical activities in children through training prior to such activities and monitoring their progress after it. This experiment has been developed on a healthy population of children from an education centre in the area of A Coruña. The results show increasing errors for lower primary school years, as expected, and also strongly dependent on the motor path type or characteristic. Therefore, this tool will be suitable for use with children affected by motor coordination difficulties.

Motor Skill Evaluation During Robot-Assisted Surgery

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Somayeh B. Shafiei ◽  
Lora Cavuoto ◽  
Khurshid A. Guru
Keyword(s):  
Motor Skills ◽  
Power Law ◽  
Motor Skill ◽  
Dynamic Change ◽  
Robot Assisted ◽  
End Effector ◽  
Remote Manipulation ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Skill Evaluation ◽  
Robot Assisted Surgery

Remote manipulation during robot-assisted surgery requires proficiency in perception, cognition, and motor skills. We aim to understand human motor control in remote manipulation of robotic surgical instrument and attempt to measure motor skills. Three features, smoothness, normalized jerk score, and two-thirds power law coefficient, estimating the motor skills of surgeons were analyzed. These features were calculated through segments, extracted from continuous end-effector trajectories during suturing, knot-tying, and needle-passing surgical tasks, performed by 8 right-handed subjects on bench-top models using da vinci surgical kit control system. Each subject repeated each task five times. Totally 1567 segments were extracted, 413, 437, and 717 segments performed by experts, intermediates, and novice subjects, respectively. Dynamic change of kinematic properties was analyzed to evaluate the relationship between considered features and motor skill level. Results show smoothness is significantly correlated with normalized jerk score and both features are significant measures of expertise levels. Also, results show the power law is violated by many end-effector trajectories and there is no relationship between obeying two-thirds power law, smoothness and jerk. We conclude trajectory is improved from non-smooth and jerky in novices to smooth in expert surgeons. This property may be used for motor skill evaluation. It is unlikely that obeying two-thirds power law be a valid property of all end-effector trajectories. However, power law coefficient may be a discriminant feature for levels of expertise. The results are also applicable in a home-based monitoring platform, to monitor motor functioning improvement of stroke patients during rehabilitation process.

scholarly journals The Effects of Combined Movement and Storytelling Intervention on Motor Skills in South Asian and White Children Aged 5–6 Years Living in the United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 3391
Author(s):  
Emma L. J. Eyre ◽  
Cain C. T. Clark ◽  
Jason Tallis ◽  
Danielle Hodson ◽  
Sean Lowton-Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Early Intervention ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Motor Skills ◽  
Motor Development ◽  
Motor Skill ◽  
Skills Gap ◽  
White Children ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Asian Children

Early motor development has an important role in promoting physical activity (PA) during childhood and across the lifespan. Children from South Asian backgrounds are less active and have poorer motor skills, thus identifying the need for early motor skill instruction. This study examines the effect of a movement and storytelling intervention on South Asian children’s motor skills. Following ethics approval and consent, 39 children (46% South Asian) participated in a 12-week movement and storytelling intervention. Pre and post, seven motor skills (run, jump, throw, catch, stationary dribble, roll, and kick) were assessed using Children’s Activity and Movement in Preschool Study protocol. At baseline, South Asian children had poorer performance of motor skills. Following the intervention, all children improved their motor skills, with a bigger improvement observed for South Asian children. Early intervention provided remedial benefits to delays in motor skills and narrowed the motor skills gap in ethnic groups.

scholarly journals Una propuesta de evaluación para las habilidades motrices básicas en Educación Primaria a través de un juego popular: la oca (A propose the evaluation for basic motor skills in Primary Education through a popular game: the goose)

Retos ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Nuria Ureña Ortín ◽  
Fernando Ureña Villanueva ◽  
Francisco Alarcón López
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Motor Skills ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Board Game ◽  
Motor Abilities ◽  
Mobile Objects ◽  
Teaching Resource ◽  
Educación Primaria

Tras realizar una revisión y estudio de la documentación existente se comprueba que son escasas las propuestas para llevar a cabo una evaluación cualitativa y fundamentada en el proceso de los contenidos referidos a las habilidades motrices básicas. Tras este panorama, el propósito de este artículo es proponer un instrumento de evaluación formativa que se utilizó en un Centro de Educación Primaria de la Comunidad de Murcia. Para tal fin se usó un juego popular, el juego de la oca, como parte del proceso de evaluación, como recurso didáctico, motivador y como elemento globalizador de un programa de intervención destinado a conseguir una mayor efectividad en una categoría particular de habilidades motrices básicas englobadas bajo el concepto habilidad de manejo de móviles.Abstract: Tafter carrying out a review of the existing literature, we discovered that studies that propose to carry out a qualitative and based in the process evaluation of the content referring to basic motor skills are scarce. Following this overview, the purpose of this article is to propose an instrument of formative assessment, that was used in a Primary School within the Murcia Region. For this a popular Spanish board game, The Goose Game, was used as part of the evaluation process, as a teaching resource, motivator, and as a unifying element to achieve greater effectiveness in a particular category of basic motor abilities, included under the concept ability to handle mobile objects.

FEATURES OF THE ORGANIZATION OF ARTISTIC AND DESIGN ACTIVITY OF JUNIOR SCHOOLCHILDREN

2020 ◽  
pp. 62-70
Author(s):  
Olesia Makoviichuk ◽  
Alona Shulha
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Design Activity ◽  
School Students ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Artistic Activity ◽  
Labor Training ◽  
Design Activities

The article analyzes the theoretical aspects of art and design activities, considers the features of the integrative organization of art and design activities of students in the lessons of fine arts and technology in primary school. Artistic and project activities of junior schoolchildren are realized through the disciplines of fine arts and labor education (technology) in primary school. The concept of "artistic and design activity" is analyzed through the prism of the concepts of "activity", "artistic activity". The following are considered: interconnected structural components of artistic design, types of activity and types of tasks aimed at the implementation of artistic design activities of junior schoolchildren. The article emphasized the potential of an integrated combination in primary school of fine arts and labor training (technology) for art and design activities of junior high school students.

scholarly journals Attitudes towards math in primary school students: Differences depending on the grade and gender

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-132
Author(s):  
Antonio Valle ◽  
Bibiana Regueiro ◽  
Isabel Piñeiro ◽  
Benigno Sánchez ◽  
Carlos Freire ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Perceived Competence ◽  
Primary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Grade 5 ◽  
Anxiety Levels ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Negative Feelings

The main aim of this study is to check whether there are differences in some variables related to attitudes towards math in primary school students according to the course and gender. The sample consists of 897 students of the fifth and sixth year of primary education (50.2% boys and 49.8% girls). The results indicate that the boys, compared to girls, have a higher perceived competence in math, they are more intrinsically motivated extrinsic and exhibit lower levels of anxiety. As for the differences in terms of this variable, the results indicate that students in grade 5 have a higher perceived competence for math, perceive most useful, are more intrinsically motivated to this subject and show anxiety levels and some negative feelings toward the lower than grade 6. Therefore, girls show a "profile" of less adaptive than men conditions, both in terms of their perceived competition as their motivation towards math and also in terms of the emotions associated with this matter. As for the differences depending on the course, students from grade 5 are those with a much more positive attitudinal and motivational conditions than grade 6.

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