Psychomotor evaluation in school

Abstract

This study evaluates the psychomotor profile identified under the statistical average in children of both genders from three schools in the Metropolitan Region of Chile, according to the test instrument of Vítor da Fonseca. The methodology consisted in a cross-sectional descriptive study, within a quantitative framework, with an intentional sample of 31 subjects. Participation included a control group that had not received a psychomotor intervention and a statistical analysis was employed through systematic work through the use of SPSS software version 22.0. Consequently, in the results it was determined that there is an inaccuracy of control, which leads to areas of psychomotor development that are slightly affected and to areas of the dispráxic profile, moving away from the statistical average for a child of his age suggested by the test. The evidence of the area of psychomotor development with the best score is laterality, followed by tonicity, balance and notion of the body. The limits of this investigation are of a particular order, and may serve as a specific reference; its methodology can be extrapolated, applied and used with other study groups.