Fundamental motor skill and coordination - essential elements for performance outcomes of primary school-aged children

Title
Fundamental motor skill and coordination - essential elements for performance outcomes of primary school-aged children
Publication Date
2006
Author(s)
Miller, Judith Anne
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3098-6504
Email: jmiller7@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jmiller7
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
International Council for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport, and Dance (ICHPER-SD)
Place of publication
Wellington, New Zealand
UNE publication id
une:10575
Abstract
This research is based on the comparisons of 161 primary school-aged children's coordination level to their performance of a fundamental motor skill. Whole body coordination was measured using the McCarron Assessment of Neuromuscular Development, known as the MAND (McCarron, 1997). The MAND includes both fine and gross motor tasks and for each child there is an age-adjusted score which can be likened to a 'motor quotient'. This score is the Neuromuscular Development Index (NDI) with a mean of 100 and is well regarded as an indicator of whole-body coordination. The amalgamated process measures of the tee-ball strike performances for six trials were compared with the NDI scores. The participants ranged from six-to-ten years of age. Significant correlations between NDI and process performance scores allow for consideration of a range of factors that account for the current expectations over children's movement education.
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Citation
Proceedings of the 1st ICHPER-SD Oceania Congress, p. 1-12
ISBN
9780473119904
Start page
1
End page
12

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