ABSTRACT
To examine the relations of age, gender, movement experience, and gross motor development to young children's scores on divergent movement (i.e., ability to perform and modify fundamental movement patterns), 40 boys and girls ages 4, 6, and 8 years were tested. Ability to make divergent movements was evaluated by having subjects perform 3 different fundamental movement tasks. Movement experience was assessed by asking parents to complete a questionnaire. Ulrich's Test of Gross Motor Development was used to evaluate subjects' gross motor skill. Testing sessions were videotaped for analysis. Based on a forward stepwise regression analysis, experience and age accounted for 45% of the variance in children's gross motor skill.
Subject(s)
Aptitude , Child Development , Motor Skills , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Male , Psychomotor Performance , Sex FactorsABSTRACT
A generalizability study was conducted to determine the percentage of variance associated with observers and trials when assessing movement control in children with mild mental retardation. One group of observers received competency-based training and another group experienced informal training. A series of decision studies employing the variance component estimates indicated that different conditions of observation need to be employed based on the type of training received in movement control analysis. Observers receiving informal training needed to observe twice as many trials of the kick, jump, and overband throw compared to competency-trained observers to reach an acceptable level of reliability.
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Competency-Based Education , Curriculum , Intellectual Disability/diagnosis , Motor Skills , Adolescent , Child , Child, Preschool , Generalization, Psychological , Humans , Physical Education and TrainingABSTRACT
This study investigated the influence of catch trial (CT) occurrence and foreperiod variation on reaction time and movement time of children of different ages. 48 children were randomly assigned to a CT group or a no-CT group. All received randomly ordered foreperiods. The presence of CTs and varying foreperiods played an inhibitory role in the motor performance of children.
