Search results for "motor development"
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Exploration: an overarching focus for holistic development
2021
Primary school teachers' and P.E. teachers' accuracy in assessing children's gross motor performance
1998
Motor development and Down syndrome
2019
Abstract The chapter aims to analyze motor development in Down syndrome (DS) population. In the light of a holistic perspective to typical and atypical development, there is a renewed scientific interest on the role of motor skills to promote general health. A multidisciplinary approach, that involves findings from psychology, neuroscience, kinesiology and education is employed. Motor proficiency is a set of functions necessary for everyday life which allow moving around in the environment and manipulating tools; it's typically articulated into posture, gross motor and fine motor skills. Ample research highlighted a strong correlation among Intellectual Quotient and motor skills demonstrati…
Promoting Motor Development in Children in the COVID-19 era : Science and Applications
2022
Reliability Assessment of Scores from Video-Recorded TGMD-3 Performances
2017
This study examined the intrarater and interrater reliability of the Test of Gross Motor Development—3rd Edition (TGMD-3). Participants were 60 Finnish children aged between 3 and 9 years, divided into three separate samples of 20. Two samples of 20 were used to examine the intrarater reliability of two different assessors, and the third sample of 20 was used to establish interrater reliability. Children’s TGMD-3 performances were video-recorded and later assessed using an intraclass correlation coefficient, a kappa statistic, and a percent agreement calculation. The intrarater reliability of the locomotor subtest, ball skills subtest, and gross motor total score ranged from 0.69 to 0.77, a…
Differences in the Motor Coordination Abilities Among Adolescent Gymnasts, Swimmers, and Ice Hockey Players
2017
AbstractPurpose. Motor coordination is proposed to be a relatively stable age-related construct, unlikely to be influenced by aligned experiential factors such as intensive sport-specific training. The purpose of the study is to investigate if there are differences in motor coordination abilities among young artistic gymnasts, swimmers, and ice hockey players.Methods. The participants of the study were 508 female and 258 male adolescents (age, M = 12.80, SD = 1.10) comprising artistic gymnasts (n = 463), swimmers (n = 70), and ice hockey players (n = 233). The KTK-test protocol was used to analyse their gross motor coordination abilities.Results. The results of the study demonstrated that g…
La mente del bambino: tra lungimiranza pedagogica ed evidenze neuroscientifiche. Uno studio comparato su Maria Montessori e la Brain-based Education
2021
Il paper intende tracciare una linea di congiunzione tra le intuizioni di Maria Montessori e le recenti evidenze neuroscientifiche: “La scoperta del bambino”, auspicata dalla studiosa all’inizio del XX secolo, è tuttora in corso e punta alla conquista della comprensione del funzionamento della mente del bambino. In particolare, la riflessione si sviluppa attorno ai seguenti temi: neuroplasticità neuronale e sinaptogenesi, lo sviluppo motorio, il processo attentivo e il meccanismo della mimesi. Questi argomenti, rinvigoriti dal dialogo tra la pedagogia montessoriana e le ricerche neuroscientifiche, possono determinare un nuovo modo di intendere la questione e la prassi educativa. The paper i…
Actual and Perceived Motor Competence, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Physical Activity, and Weight Status in Schoolchildren : Latent Profile and Transit…
2022
Engagement in physical activity plays a central role in the prevention and treatment of childhood overweight/obesity. However, some children may lack the skills and confidence to be physically active. This 3-year follow-up study aimed to form profiles based on cardiorespiratory fitness, actual motor competence, perceived motor competence, physical activity, and weight status, and to examine if these profiles remain stable from late childhood to early adolescence. All these variables were annually assessed in 1,162 Finnish schoolchildren (girls = 583 and boys = 564, Mage = 11.27 ± 0.32 years). Latent profile analysis was used to identify profiles and latent transition analysis to examine the…
Motor Coordination and Global Development in Subjects with Down Syndrome: The Influence of Physical Activity
2022
Background: Many research studies have investigated motor impairments and delayed development in children with Down Syndrome (DS). However, very few studies detected these features in adults with DS. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between motor coordination and global development in subjects with DS, including adults. Furthermore, the second aim was to detect any differences in motor coordination and global development as a function of the practice of physical activity (PA) in this population. Methods: Twenty-five participants with DS (10 f, 15 m), with a chronological mean age of 27.24 years and development mean age of cognitive area of 4.93 years, were enrolled an…