Evaluación del nivel de desarrollo de habilidades motrices básicas en niños de 4 años del Centro de Educación Inicial “Antonio Borrero” de la ciudad de Cuenca

Abstract

The objective of the research was to assess the level of development of basic skills in children at 4 years of the Center of Initial Education "Antonio Borrero" of the city of Cuenca. This cross-sectional descriptive study assessed a total of 89 children, 45 men and 44 women, using the battery of tests for the assessment of basic skills in children of 4 years, adapted by Barreto and Contreras in 2016, which is composed by 14 tests encompassed in 5 areas: degree of maturation, degree of predominance (laterality), degree of eye-hand coordination, degree of oculus-pédic coordination and postural control, balance. In the areas of the degree of maturation, a degree of predominance (laterality), the degree of oculus-pedic coordination and postural control, the participants present normal results; except for the manual eye coordination area in which low results were obtained. In this article there are no differences between them, but also in boys and girls, and in most of the tests, it is found in the concordance between chronological age and motor age, except for the oculi-manual coordination test.