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Direct linkJarvis, Stuart; Rainer, Paul; Ganesh, Siva – Education 3-13, 2023
The primary aim of this study was to identify levels of fundamental movement skills (FMS) proficiency in primary school children. A secondary aim was to establish if these FMS proficiency levels differentiated between children born in different quartiles of the school year. The results demonstrated overall levels of FMS proficiency were low in…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Age Differences, Physical Education, Elementary School Students
Rodríguez-Negro, Josune; Falese, Lavinia; Yanci, Javier – Journal of Educational Research, 2019
This study examines the effects of two different 8-week balance intervention programs for students of primary school age. Static and dynamic balance were assessed in 380 students (6-12 years) before and after an 8-week balance intervention program. Students were divided and assigned into a no intervention control group, a direct instructional…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Children, Psychomotor Skills, Intervention
Download full textOrhan, Rustem; Ergin, Murat; Ayan, Sinan; Boyali, Ekrem – Journal of Education and Learning, 2020
The aim of this paper was to examine the selected physical and motoric characteristics of students with mild intellectual disabilities. The total number of the participants was 119 (54 females and 65 males) and the mean age was 10.78 ± 1.88 years. Height, weight, body mass index (BMI), body fat percentage, and body fat mass scores were collected…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychomotor Skills, Students with Disabilities, Special Needs Students
Williams, Harriet G.; Pfeiffer, Karin A.; Dowda, Marsha; Jeter, Chevy; Jones, Shaverra; Pate, Russell R. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2009
The purpose of this study was to develop a valid and reliable tool for use in assessing motor skills in preschool children in field-based settings. The development of the Children's Activity and Movement in Preschool Study Motor Skills Protocol included evidence of its reliability and validity for use in field-based environments as part of large…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Age Differences, Correlation, Motor Development
Peer reviewedKarper, William B.; Martinek, Thomas J. – Educational Research Quarterly, 1983
The purpose of this study was to determine differential relationships among teacher perceptions of student expression of effort, teacher expectation, grade, school, teacher, sex, and being handicapped/nonhandicapped on gross motor performance among handicapped and nonhandicapped children integrated together in physical education classes.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Disabilities, Expectation, Mainstreaming
Peer reviewedHoffman, Shirl J.; And Others – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 1983
A four-part taxonomy was used to analyze first-, third-, and fifth-grade children's ability to throw and to anticipate the position of a target. The children's performances were assessed under conditions in which both the thrower and the target were stationary, both were moving, and one was moving and the other stationary. (Authors/PP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Elementary Education, Motor Development
Pitkanen, Pentti – 1968
This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a report on an investigation started in 1957 by Martti Takala and Penti Pitkanen at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, to examine the connections between physical fitness and other measures of individual difference. The report deals with the structure and development…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Age Differences, Athletics, Body Height
Rarick, G. Lawrence; Broadhead, Geoffrey A. – 1968
The investigation examined the role of physical activity programs in the modification of the motor, intellectual, social, and emotional development of educable mentally retarded children and minimally brain injured children. Forty nine classes of children (275 educable mentally retarded and 206 minimally brain injured) participated in 20 weeks of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Art, Behavior Change, Elementary School Students
