Does relative age influence motor test performance of fourth grade pupils?

Autor/inn/en	Wattie, Nick; Tietjens, Maike; Schorer, Jörg; Ghanbari, Marie-Christine; Strauss, Bernd; Seidel, Ilka; Baker, Joseph
Titel	Does relative age influence motor test performance of fourth grade pupils? Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Hat relatives Alter Einfluss auf die motorische Testleistung bei Schülern der vierten Klasse?
Quelle	In: European physical education review, 20 (2014) 3, S. 398-406Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1356-336X; 1741-2749
DOI	10.1177/1356336X14534363
Schlagwörter	Testaufbau; Leistungsfähigkeit; Test; Testbatterie; Testverfahren; Alter; Leistungsfähigkeit; Schüler; Test; Fitness; Interpretation; Körperbau; Schulklasse; Daten; Aktivität; Testbatterie; Schulklasse; Schüler; Aktivität; Körperbau; Messverfahren; Bewegung (Motorische); Fitness; Sportaktivität; Alter; Daten; Interpretation
Abstract	The aim of the current study was to explore relative age's influence on physical and motor tests among fourth grade children (9 to 10 years) from Germany. Data from 1218 children (49% female) who had performed the German Motor Ability Test (Bös et al., 2009) were analysed. The test battery, which was comprised of physical and motor tests, included 20 m sprint, balance backwards, jumping sideways, stand and reach, push-ups, sit-ups, standing broad jump, and six-minute run. Analyses of variance only revealed statistically significant effects for height, weight, and 20 m sprint time (p ( .01) among boys, with relatively older boys performing better than relatively younger boys. For the girls, the only significant difference between quartiles was for height (p ( .01), with the oldest quartiles being taller than the younger quartiles. These results may have implications for statistical vs. practical significance, sampling, and how youth are evaluated in physical education classes. Verf.-Referat.
Erfasst von	Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft, Bonn
Update	2015/2