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An assessment of gross motor development of kindergarten pupils at Akyemansa District in the Eastern Region, Ghana

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dc.contributor.author Somiah, P.K
dc.date.accessioned 2024-02-14T11:12:19Z
dc.date.available 2024-02-14T11:12:19Z
dc.date.issued 2015
dc.identifier.uri http://41.74.91.244:8080/handle/123456789/2031
dc.description A THESIS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, PHYSICAL EDUCATION, RECREATION AND SPORTS, FACULTY OF SCIENCE EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION, WINNEBA, SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION, WINNEBA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION OCTOBER, 2015 en_US
dc.description.abstract Gross motor skills have been shown to influence motor development during childhood stage. The purpose of this study is to assess the gross motor development of kindergarten pupils at Akyemansa district in the Eastern Region, Ghana. Experimental design of pretest-posttest non-equivalent groups’ method was adopted. The sample consists of eighty participants between ages 4 to7years.The participants were selected using simple random, purposive and stratified sampling techniques. Test of Gross Motor Development-2 (TGMD-2; Ulrich, 2000) was used as instrument for data collection. This yielded a reliability of 0.69 and 0.72 respectively. Four research questions were answered. Descriptive statistics of means and standard deviation was used to analyze the data for demographic and research questions. The result showed that children within the kindergarten have established normal development of fundamental motor skills especially in catching (M = 2.80, SD = 1.55). The males showed greater proficiency in the locomotor skills (M = 5.65, SD = 3.03) whiles the females showed a greater proficiency in object control skills. (M = 10.73, SD = 3.31). The findings showed that there was significant differences in the gross motor skills of participants with locomotor skills (t = 17.93, df = 79, P <. 05) and object control skills (t = 24.76, df = 79, P <.05). It was revealed that the object control skills shows a better mean value (M = 9.96) than the locomotor skills (M = 5.40). Thus, was concluded that pupils gross motor skills have developed to some extent, hence need attention. It was recommended that intervention programme should be used by teachers to address the delayed skills. Also school administrators and kindergarten coordinators in the various district education directorates should monitor the pupils’ motor development on regular basis to identify any developmental delays that might exist. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher University of Education,Winneba en_US
dc.subject Gross motor development en_US
dc.title An assessment of gross motor development of kindergarten pupils at Akyemansa District in the Eastern Region, Ghana en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US


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