Nivel de desarrollo de las capacidades perceptivo-motrices en escolares de un municipio de quinta categoría en Colombia

Perceptual-motor capabilities, as core content in physical education at the elementary school level, require multiple learning environments where classes are aimed at strengthening body awareness in various motor actions. The objective of the study was to describe the level of development of perceptual-motor capabilities in schoolchildren in a municipality in Antioquia (Colombia) and its relationship with gender. Methodologically, it was a quantitative study with a non-experimental-descriptive design using non-probabilistic sampling of 82 fourth- and fifth-grade elementary school students. A sociodemographic profile and the CPM battery validated for the Colombian population (CVI=0.97) were used, and the information was processed using SPSS 27 and Jamovi 2.3.26 software. The results showed that, in terms of CPM classification, performance was low, with balance (82.9%), temporality (57.3%), and coordination (52.4%) showing the highest percentage of low performance. Furthermore, with regard to the gender variable, it was found that men performed better than women in the coordination tests (t=2.838; p