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Are teachers missing the beat on students' motor competence? [PDF]
PLoS OnePurpose Compare physical education (PE) teachers’ perceptions of their students’ motor competence (MC) with students’ objectively assessed actual motor competence. Methods 20 PE teachers and 340 students participated.
Flôres F +6 more
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Siblings’ Influence on the Motor Competence of Preschoolers [PDF]
Children, 2021 The number of single-child families has been rising steadily in recent years, resulting in a childhood absent of sibling relationships. Being an only child has been shown to have a negative impact on physical fitness, somatic fitness, and motor development.
Luis P. Rodrigues +5 more
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Perception of Competence as Mediator between Motor Competence and Physical Activity [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021 Background: The practice of physical activity (PA) plays an important role in achieving an active-healthy lifestyle. Several authors have focused their studies on the relationship between motor competence (MC) and physical activity (PA). Stodden et al.
Luis-de Cos Izaskun +3 more
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Motor Competence in Children With and Without Ambliopia
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2021 The purpose of this study was to assess the motor competence of children with and without amblyopia. Study participants were 165 primary school children, aged 6–9 years, divided into three groups based on their visual acuity with the Snellen chart: (a) non-amblyopia, (b) corrected amblyopia, and (c) non-corrected amblyopia.
Sá, Cristina +4 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 2023 The study aims were to (1) identify perceived motor competence (PMC) and actual motor competence (AMC) profiles in children at two time points (early and middle childhood) 3 years apart, (2) explore transitions between the profiles from T1 to T2, and (3) investigate how PMC‐AMC profiles at T1 differ in their mean values for AMC and PMC variables at T2.
Barnett, Lisa M. +5 more
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ADOLESCENCE, MOTOR COORDINATION PROBLEMS AND COMPETENCE
Educación XX1, 2015 This paper presents a review of the research focusing on the study of coordination and motor competence in the adolescent stage. The purpose of this article was to provide an insight into the different dimensions of adolescent motor development in the influence of the evolution of motor co-ordination at this stage of life.
Ramón Otero, Irene +1 more
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Motor Competence Assessment (MCA) Scoring Method
Children, 2022 The Motor Competence Assessment (MCA) is a quantitative test battery that assesses motor competence across the whole lifespan. It is composed of three sub-scales: locomotor, stability, and manipulative, each of them assessed by two different objectively measured tests.
Luis Paulo Rodrigues +4 more
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Physical Activity and Motor Competence in Preschool Children [PDF]
Children, 2021 Longitudinal evidence has demonstrated that engagement in physical activity (PA) and the development of motor competence (MC) have numerous tangible health and developmental benefits [...]
Vladimir E. Martínez-Bello +1 more
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Reliability Levels of Motor Competence In Youth Athletes
BMC Pediatrics, 2022 Abstract This study aimed to analyze the reliability of the tests included in the motor competence assessment (MCA) battery and compare the effects of the number of trials per test. Thirty female volleyball players (14.6±1.3 years of age) were tested. The participants performed two or three trials of each test. Intra-class correlation (ICC) was
Luz , Carlos +7 more
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Flexibility is associated with motor competence in schoolchildren
Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 2016 Available data on the associations between motor competence (MC) and flexibility are limited and result inconclusive. This study aims to examine the relationship between flexibility and MC in children. The sample comprised 596 Portuguese children (47.1% girls) aged 9.7 ± 0.6 years.
Lopes, Luís +7 more
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