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Miller, Matthew B.; Jimenez-Garcia, John Alexander; Hong, Chang Ki; DeMont, Richard – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2020
The Child-Focused Injury Risk Screening Tool (ChildFIRST) is a process-based assessment including 10 movement skills with 4 associated evaluation criteria. The ChildFIRST has been validated by a group of experts to evaluate movement competence and injury risk in 8-12-year-olds. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the reliability of the…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Risk Assessment, Injuries, Psychomotor Skills
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Matthews, Evan L.; Horvat, Fiona M.; Phillips, David A. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2022
The YMCA step test uses a prescribed step height which is difficult in a telehealth setting. Examine a modification of the YMCA step test allowing for the use of preexisting in-home objects of variable height as the "step" in a virtual environment. Young healthy participants (n = 40) performed step tests with a small and large object of…
Descriptors: Physical Fitness, Metabolism, Tests, Measurement
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Kelleher, Leila K.; Beach, Tyson A. C.; Frost, David M.; Johnson, Andrew M.; Dickey, James P. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2018
The scoring scheme for the functional movement screen implicitly assumes that the factor structure is consistent, stable, and congruent across different populations. To determine if this is the case, we compared principal components analyses of three samples: a healthy, general population (n = 100), a group of varsity athletes (n = 101), and a…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Test Reliability, Screening Tests, Motion