The effect of physical education course on motor development in primary school and pre-school children and examination of parents' opinions

The aim of my study is to examine the motor development of preschool and primary school children according to whether they take physical education lessons or not, and the attitudes of families towards physical education lessons. Within the scope of the subject, a personal information form was prepared by us for the parents. An experimental study model was used. The research group of this study consists of children in the pre-school, 1st and 2nd grade levels of Muş Bahçeşehir College in Muş province, selected by easy sampling method, and children studying in the 1st and 2nd grades of Bal Peteği Kindergarten and Sungu Mehmet Akif Ersoy Primary School in Muş province. As data collection tools, a personal information form created by the researcher to determine family opinions and a form containing students' motor skill measurements were used. The data were analyzed with the SPSS 22 package program. Descriptive statistics were used to determine family opinions in the analysis of the data. It was observed that the normality tested data did not show a normal distribution. For data that did not show normal distribution, Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis test were used for intragroup comparisons. As a result, it was observed that the mean scores of students studying in private schools were higher in the motor skills horizontal jump, vertical jump, balance and flexibility measurements. The existence of physical education classes and a physical education teacher in a private school supports the results. Key Words: Preschool, Motor Developmant, Phiysical Education and Sports.