The Effect of Selected Perceptual-motor Activities on Eye-hand Coordination of 6-7 years old children

It can be said that almost each movement is a kind of perceptual-motor skill. The main objective of this research is to investigate the effect of selected perceptual-motor activities on eye-hand coordination of 6-7 years old children. The research is a field research and is conducted in a quasi-experimental manner. Statistical population of this research consist of 1368 boys of 6-7 ages who were studying in pre-elementary and first grade of elementary schools in Torbat-e Heydarieh in academic year of 2012-2013. The statistical method of the research is quasi-experimental. As a result, descriptive statistics is used for determining the mean, standard deviation and drawing tables and diagrams. In inference section, the hypotheses of the research are tested by independent sample t test and dependent sample t test. There is a meaningful difference between the results of posttests which was given to our two groups of 6 years old and 7 years old children. This difference is more significant in the group of 6 years old children compared to the other group of 7 year old children. However, there was no meaningful difference in the pretests of the two groups.