ERCAN, Zülfiye Gül Trakya Üniversitesi - Zihin ve Hareket Özürlü Çocuklar İçin Eğitim Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi, Turkey , ARAL, Neriman Ankara Üniversitesi - Ev Ekonomisi Yüksekokulu - Çocuk Gelişimi ve Eğitimi Bölümü, Turkey

THE INVESTIGATION OF THE VISUAL PERCEPTIONEDUCATION ON DEVELOPMENT OF VISUAL-MOTORINTEGRATION IN CHILDREN ATTENDINGKINDERGARTEN

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In this research, it was aimed to investigate the visual-motor integration development of children whoreceived visual perception education and who did not, and to determine whether the visual perceptioneducation is affected on visual-motor integration development or not. The design of the research waspretest-posttest, following test, control group experimental design. The sampling of the researchconstituded of 78 children who attending to four kindergarten of two primary school in center of Edirne.The subject were assigned two groups, involving children selected randomly. The experimental groupwas consist of 39 children and control group was consist of 39 children. During three-month, visualperception education was applied to the experimental group three times a week. In this research “TheBeery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration(VMI-5th)” was used to obtain data.This test was developed by Beery (1967) and, it was adapted to Turkısh language by the researchers.Data was analyzed by Two Way ANOVA for Mixed Measures and Independent Samples T test were used.At the end of visual perception education, a meaningful difference was found between experimental andcontrol group(p .001). It was found that the visual perception education had positive effect on theexperimental group.

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Perception , visual perception , visual , motor integration , preschool education

Journal Of Turkish Educational Sciences

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