Motor assessment of preschool aged children: A preliminary investigation of the validity of the Bruininks–Oseretsky test of motor proficiency – Short form

Systematic Review and Proposal of a Field-Based Physical Fitness-Test Battery in Preschool Children: The PREFIT Battery

“…During our search we identified a number of studies that did not meet the inclusion criteria or did not study reliability, validity or relationship with health of fitness tests, but used the handgrip-strength [43][44][45][46][47][48] and standing longjump tests [41,[48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57] for measuring musculoskeletal fitness, different versions of the shuttle-run test for measuring speed/agility [30,41,49,51,[55][56][57], or the one-leg-stance test (different versions) for measuring balance [41,53,55,58,59] in preschool children. No problems were reported during testing sessions.…”

Physical Literacy: Importance, Assessment and Future Directions

“…The M-ABC takes 20-25 min to test per individual and requires administration in a separate room [17]. Additionally, norm-based movement tests lack the flexibility required to monitor individual-specific progress in motor skill learning that varies as a function of age, gender and cultural factors [16,20,22,23]. As a cross-cultural example, the McCarron Assessment of Neuromuscular Development is a normbased assessment originating from the USA that has limited validity when used to test movement ability of Australian cohorts [16].…”

Assessment of preschoolers’ gross motor proficiency: revisiting Bruininks–Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency

“…Lam that researchers use product-oriented approaches, which are easier to administer, in order to assess children's gross motor proficiency. Among the product-oriented instruments for measuring children's gross motor proficiency, Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (BOTMP; Bruininks, 1978) is popular and has been used internationally (Burton & Miller, 1998;Flegel & Kolobe, 2002;Gallahue & Ozmun, 2002;Hattie & Edwards, 1987;Miles, Nierengarten, & Nearing, 1988;Venetsanou et al, 2009).…”

“…A literature search also reveals that there are very few, validated reliable tests of motor proficiency for children under 72 months. Among the available test instruments for assessing young children's motor proficiency, the BOTMP (Bruininks, 1978) is one of the most popular and comprehensive measuring tools for children between 4 years 6 months and 14 years 6 months of age (Burton & Miller, 1998;Flegel & Kolobe, 2002;Gallahue & Ozmun, 2002;Hattie & Edwards, 1987;Miles et al, 1988;Venetsanou et al, 2009). Thus, even though administering BOTMP individually is time consuming, it has been used extensively by researchers for testing children's gross motor proficiency.…”

“…' Hofsten (2004) also agreed with the physical educationists (Corbin, 1980;Gallahue & Cleland, 2003;Gallahue & Ozmun, 2002;Graham, Holt/Hale, & Parker, 2003;Kambas & Aggeloussis, 2006;Pangrazi & Dauer, 1992;Payne & Isaacs, 1998) that motor development is at the heart of development and a primary indicator reflecting all its different aspects including perception, planning and motivation, particularly during infancy and early childhood. In order to understand preschool children's motor development and formulate appropriate plans in enhancing children's development, motor assessment of preschool children is deemed to be necessary and valuable (Payne & Issacs, 1998;Venetsanou, Kambas, Aggeloussis, Fatouros, & Taxildaris, 2007, 2009. Motor development includes two areas: gross and fine motor.…”