Relationships among perceptual-motor, self-concept, and academic measures for children in kindergarten, grades one and two.
Most studies reporting correlations of psychomotor and cognitive measures deal with perceptual-training programs for the remediation of academic deficiencies. This study provided additional information about the relationships of perceptual-motor ability and academic achievement for children in kindergarten through the second grade, and included self-concept. A small positive relationship between perceptual-motor ability and academic ability was observed for all three grade levels. There was little indication of any significant relationship between self-concept and academic ability, which provides no basis for the hypothesis proposing self-concept as an intervening variable in the relationship between the perceptual-motor and academic areas, at least for such young subjects.
D000124:Achievement; D001077:Aptitude Tests; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D007361:Intelligence Tests; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D009048:Motor Skills; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012649:Self Concept; D014796:Visual Perception