Department of Team Sports Games, University School of Physical Education in Wrocław, A Mickiewicz Street 58, 51-684 Wrocław, Poland.
Department of Physical Education, An Giang University, VNU-Ho Chi Minh, 18 Ung Van Khiem, Long Xuyên 90100, Vietnam.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Feb 1;18(3):1290. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18031290.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of the BRAINballs program on second graders' gross motor skills in a primary school in Vietnam. A total of 55 students (23 boys and 32 girls) aged seven years participated in the study. The research used the method of a pedagogical experiment and parallel group technique (experimental and control group) with pre- and post-testing. The study was conducted in the school year 2019/2020. The gross motor skills performance was assessed by the Test of Gross Motor Development-2nd Edition. The BRAINballs program was conducted twice a week and combined physical activity with subject-related contents by means of a set of 100 balls with painted letters, numbers, and signs. The results showed that the experimental and control groups improved their motor skills after one school year ( < 0.001). However, the analysis of covariance demonstrated that students from the experimental group, compared to students from the control group, showed significantly better scores in both subtests: locomotor ( = 0.0000) and object control skills ( = 0.0000). The findings of this study show that the BRAINballs program had a positive effect on children's motor performances and may help to better understand the development of basic motor skills of seven-year-old students in Vietnam.
本研究旨在评估越南一所小学的 BRAINballs 计划对二年级学生粗大运动技能的影响。共有 55 名 7 岁学生（23 名男生和 32 名女生）参与了这项研究。研究采用了教育实验法和并行组技术（实验组和对照组），并进行了前后测试。研究在 2019/2020 学年进行。粗大运动技能表现通过第二代粗大运动发育测试进行评估。BRAINballs 计划每周进行两次，将体育活动与与学科相关的内容相结合，通过一组 100 个带有字母、数字和符号的彩绘球进行。结果表明，经过一学年后，实验组和对照组的学生都提高了他们的运动技能（<0.001）。然而，协方差分析表明，与对照组学生相比，实验组学生在两个分测验中的得分均显著提高：移动技能（=0.0000）和物体控制技能（=0.0000）。本研究的结果表明，BRAINballs 计划对儿童的运动表现有积极影响，并且可能有助于更好地了解越南 7 岁学生基本运动技能的发展。
