Psychological and Pedagogical Assessment of Movement Development in Children of 5—7 years

Abstract

The paper describes a research on the methods of psychological and pedagogical assessment of movement development in children of 5—7 years. The importance of creating a set of methods for identifying the actual motor development in children is discussed. According to the hypothesis, new types of movements (which appear at this age) and how children carry them out can become the basis of psychological and pedagogical assessment of motor development in children aged 5 to 7 years. The paper outlines the principles underlying the choice of movements for diagnostic purposes and provides data of the experimental study of movement in 100 children aged 5—7 and its comparison to the data of pedagogical monitoring. In the final part the paper discusses the perspectives of applying the described methods of psychological and pedagogical assessment of motor development - as more informative (basing on the revealed developmental features) and as more effective (less time-consuming).