Is the Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2nd edition a reliable instrument to measure motor performance in 3 year old children?

Research in Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1370-1377

  Smits Engelsman, Bouwien C M ^a,b   Niemeijer, Anuschka S ^c   van Waelvelde, Hilde ^d  

^a University for Professionals   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c SINT MAARTENSKLINIEK   (Netherlands)

^d Arteveldehogeschool   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Agreement; Feasibility; Motor test; Movement ABC 2; Test retest reliability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT ASSESSMENT BATTERY FOR CHILDREN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; STANDARDIZATION; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 79957877534     PISSN: 08914222     EISSN: 18733379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2011.01.031     Document Type: Article

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