Assessing Movement Competence and Screening for Injury Risk in 8–12-year-Old Children: Reliability of the Child-Focused Injury Risk Screening Tool (ChildFIRST)

Expert recommendations for the design of a teacher-oriented movement assessment tool for children aged 4-7 years: a Delphi study

“…First, the list of movement skills provided to participants in round one did not include foundational skills (such as cycling, swimming strokes, body weight squat) that have been suggested to be equally important as the skills that were deemed here as being fundamental movement skills (e.g., throw, catch, jump) (Hulteen et al, 2018). Recent research has highlighted how becoming competent in these foundational skills, specifically bodyweight squat and lunge, during childhood could benefit physical activity as they would enhance movement competence and reduce risk of injury (Miller et al, 2020). However, foundational skills were not considered for inclusion in the MAT due to the remit of the project to measure children's FMS.…”

“…A feasibility trial of the MAT being used in schools by primary teachers will take place, along with validity and reliability testing. Owing to the emergence of literature emphasizing the importance of foundational movement skills (Miller et al, 2020), a future iteration of the MAT could seek expert opinion to provide further understanding of the scope for these skills to be assessed alongside FMS.…”

Design of a new movement competence assessment for children aged 8–12: A Delphi poll study

“…There is a strong concern that currently available assessment tools only provide a single plane perspective of a child's MC and do not consider the risk of injury in their protocols (Miller et al, 2020). For example, a disadvantage of product-based (e.g.…”

“…For example, a disadvantage of product-based (e.g. Körperkoordinationstest für Kinder (KTK)) Schilling, 1974, 2007) MC assessments is the inability to identify movement or technique errors and high-risk movements, such as knee valgus (when the knee collapses inwards, a risk factor in knee injuries), associated with musculoskeletal injury (Hulteen, True and Pfeiffer, 2020;Miller et al, 2020). Opposed to product-based assessments, process-based assessments describe the quality of the movement patterns (Logan et al, 2017).…”

“…Opposed to product-based assessments, process-based assessments describe the quality of the movement patterns (Logan et al, 2017). Despite capturing movement quality, few process-based tools consider functional movement patterns or injury (Miller et al, 2020). This is potentially due to the range of specific purposes such tools are designed for, or indeed the environment in which they are designed (i.e.…”