Greater body fatness is one characteristic that partly explains why women, on the average, do not perform as well as men in strenuous tasks requiring movement of body weight. (JD)

Data obtained from testing fifth- and sixth-grade students under four conditions comparing the presence or absence of informational and/or motivational cues indicated that the informational component of a model's demonstration is the primary element affecting motor performance. (MJB)

Tests indicate that males have better performance than females in motor performance tests, with the exception of flexibility; black children ran significantly faster than white children in the 30-yd dash, but significant race differences were not evident on any other motor items. (JD)

Parents, teachers, and athletic coaches have a primary responsibility in attempting to elicit desirable changes in the locus of control of their children, students, or athletes. (JD)

Researchers evaluated methods of determining young children's gross motor rhythmic ability while analyzing subjects' responses to three stimulus modalities and subjects' time-space response characteristics as a function of sex and the rate of stimulus cues. (GW)

Results indicate that subjects scored better when tested by an experimenter of the opposite sex and also that there is some tendency for experimenters to receive scores from their subjects in accordance with their expectations of the subject's performance. (JD)