An experiment in measuring gross motor development of infants and young children.

The Relationship Between Measures of Physical Growth and Gross Motor Performance of Primary-Grade School Children

“…This is particularly true of mental and physical growth. Studies in these areas have paved the way for much of the research in the field of motor development (6,7,8,11,14). Many of the early studies of motor development involved the finer coordinated movements of the arm and fingers and were outgrowths of research in mental growth.…”

“…Items which present administration difficulties which possibly could interfere with performance are eliminated. Downloaded by [Indiana University Libraries] at 03:11 16 March 2015 6. Test items which involve much time and effort by the child and promote undue fatigue are considered to interfere with reliable performance.…”

Locomotor and visual-manual functions in the first two years.

“…Cunningham ( 33 ), the only person who has tried to devise a test for measuring motor development apart from general intelligence and physical growth, ironically enough obtained results that correlated rather high with Kuhlmann MA's. She attributes the relationship partly to the large number of motor items in the Kuhlmann tests.…”

Physical growth and motor development and their relation to mental development in children.

“…Scores on a modified tracing-board and a tracing-path test (121) were but slightly or not at all related to height, length of forearm, length of upper arm, and carpal-bone area of preschool children. A slight positive relationship between gross motor control of young children and the weight-height and weight-stem ratios was obtained by Cunningham (47). Practically no relationship between the weight-height index and tapping or steadiness was found by Johnson (77).…”