Bala, Gustav; Sabo, Erne; Popovi?, Boris - Relationship between motor abilities and school readiness in preschool children

摘要

On the sample of 660 preschool children (333 boys and 327 girls) upon joining the first grade, the battery of 16 motor tests was applied to analyse the relations between motor abilities and school readiness of children. The analyses were done separately for boys and girls, using the statistical program for the canonical correlation analysis in Mahalanobis space. The established relation showed that the general motor ability of both boys and girls positively correlates with their general school readiness. Due to statistical significance and positive correlation between the set of motor variables and the set of school-readiness variables, it must be pointed out that motor exercising in preschool age is of utmost importance.