A pilot study on the gross motor proficiency of Hong Kong preschoolers aged 5 to 6 years

A pilot study on the gross motor proficiency of Hong Kong preschoolers aged 5 to 6 years

• Lam, Hazel Mei Yung Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Schiller, Wendy University of South Australia

Early Child Development and Care, 171(1), 11-20, 2001

Routledge

2001

• C Psychology & Learning
  • CA Perception & Motor Abilities
• A Human Growth & Development
  • AA Physical & Psychomotor Development
• A Human Growth & Development
  • AJ Sexual Difference, Bisexual Educational Difference, Sexism in Education

Competence Early Childhood Education Foreign Countries Motor Development Norms Physical Fitness Preschool Children Sex Differences Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Pre-Primary Education

Over the past two decades children's fitness levels may have declined (Ross and Pate, 1987; Ignico, 1990; Leung, 1995). Currently, attention is being directed to young children's gross motor performance, assessment procedures and program planning issues. This paper will present findings of a study which investigates the gross motor proficiency of young children in Hong Kong. The Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (Subtests 1-5) was used to assess the gross motor proficiency of 320 children aged 5 to 6 years. Gross motor proficiency was measured in terms of their performance on running speed and agility, balance, bilateral coordination, strength and upper-limb coordination.
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Special issue topic: "The Power of Choice in Early Childhood--Research or Rhetoric? Part 2."

• English

Journal Articles

• 03004430

• 10.1080/0300443011710102

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/11541f46

2010-11-24