The Athletic Skills Track: Age- and gender-related normative values of a motor skills test for 4- to 12-year-old children.

Autor: Hoeboer JJAAM; Research Group Healthy Lifestyle in a Supporting Environment, Faculty of Health, Nutrition & Sport, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands. Electronic address: j.j.a.a.hoeboer@hhs.nl., Ongena G; Department Institute for ICT, HU University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands; Department of Information Technology and Services, The Netherlands., Krijger-Hombergen M; Research Group Healthy Lifestyle in a Supporting Environment, Faculty of Health, Nutrition & Sport, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands., Stolk E; Research Group Healthy Lifestyle in a Supporting Environment, Faculty of Health, Nutrition & Sport, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands., Savelsbergh GJP; Department of Human Movement Sciences, Faculty of Behavioural and Human Movement Science, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands., de Vries SI; Research Group Healthy Lifestyle in a Supporting Environment, Faculty of Health, Nutrition & Sport, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of science and medicine in sport [J Sci Med Sport] 2018 Sep; Vol. 21 (9), pp. 975-979. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Feb 07.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsams.2018.01.014
Abstrakt: Objectives: The aim of the presented study is to provide age- and gender-related normative values and MQ values for a motor skills test, the Athletic Skills Track, among 4- to 12-year-old children.
Design: Cross-sectional.
Methods: In 2016, a total of 7977 Dutch children, 4036 boys (mean age 8.6 years, SD 2.1) and 3941 girls (mean age 8.6 years, SD 2.1), performed an age-related version of the Athletic Skills Track (AST). The AST is a track consisting of 5-7 fundamental movement skill tasks that should be completed as fast as possible. The children performed the test during a regular physical education (PE) lesson under the supervision of their own PE teacher. For each version of the AST (AST-1: n=917; AST-2: n=3947; AST-3: n=3213) age- and gender-related reference centiles were derived from the gathered data using the Lambda, Mu, Sigma (LMS) method.
Results: All children completed the AST within 60s (mean 29.6s, SD 7.7). An independent samples t-test showed that boys were significantly faster in completing the track than girls, except for the 4-year-old boys. Therefore, age- and gender-related reference centiles were derived. The reference curves demonstrate an almost linear decrease in time to complete AST-1 and AST-2 with increasing age.
Conclusions: The present study provides age- and gender-related normative values and MQ values for the AST among 4- to 12-year-old Dutch children. With these normative values PE teachers can interpret children's performance on the AST.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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