The relationship between fundamental movement skills and self-reported physical activity during Finnish junior high school

Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 492-505

  Jaakkola, Timo ^a   Washington, Tracy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

fundamental movement skills; physical activity; school physical education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887082052     PISSN: 17408989     EISSN: 17425786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17408989.2012.690386     Document Type: Article

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