Desempeño motriz de los niños y niñas que cursan el NB1 y NB2 de la comuna de Puerto Montt

Abstract

This is a piece of descriptive and comparative research which aimed at finding out the motor performance, the congnitive competencies, the qualitative development of basic motor skills and NB1 and NB2 students' s opinions of the First Level of Primary Education. The research instrument consisted of a set of tests devised by former if DIGEDER, C.P.I.E.P., of the Ministry of Education, 1998, which concentrate on assessing the main and complementary objectives, plus the compulsory minimun contents described in the Education Program.

The assessment procedure considers four tests for each level. The following are the ones corresponding to level NB1: a) test of basic movements, b) answers to oral questions related to the knowledge of segments, articulations, main and secondary positions and space-time notions, c) answers to a questionnaire in which the students give their impressions about what they think, feel and do regarding certain activities, and d) answers to a questionnaire about their classmates.

The assessment procedure corresponding to level NB2 considers the following tests: a) tests of basic movement combination, b) performance and combination of basic motor skills connected to problems of space, time and dynamics, c) motor answers to given commands related to space and time notions d) answers to a questionnaire where the learners express what they think, feel and tend to do.