The purpose of this research was to examine the effect of eight weeks of educational games on selected motor skills and physical fitness in educable mental retardation boys (8-13 years old) in Doroud city. The statisticalpopulation of this study was all male students of exceptional schools in Doroud city. 40 students were selected as sample. They were divided in to the control (N=20) and experimental group (N=20). The instrument was included Wechsler Intelligence Scale for exceptional children, Oseretsky Motor Developmental Scale, AAHPERD test, and Sinclair test for the assessment of hand-eye coordination skill. At first, subjects were familiar with the test in a session. Then, they participated in the pre-test. The experimental group was involved to educational games for 8 weeks and each session for 1 hour. The collected data were analyzed by independent and dependent t-test and Levene’s test for equality of variances (α≤0.05). The results of this study showed that eight weeks of educational games had a significant effect on the agility, flexibility, static balance, passing and receiving the ball. But those had no significant effect on the neuromuscular coordination, reaction speed, and precision jump.
کلید واژگان :
Educational games, physical fitness, motor skills, educable mental retardation children
