Investigating levels and determinants of primary school children’s basic motor competencies in nine European countries

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42278-022-00155-w" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42278-022-00155-w</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42278-022-00155-w" target="_blank" >10.1007/s42278-022-00155-w</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Investigating levels and determinants of primary school children’s basic motor competencies in nine European countries

Original language description

Basic motor competencies (BMC) belong to the key learning goals of Physical Education (PE) in primary school curricula in Europe. These competencies are necessary to participate in sports inside and outside of school. Children should therefore achieve age-adequate BMC in PE and any need for educational motor support should be identified at an early stage. Studies in German-speaking countries showed that various endogenous and exogenous factors are related to children's BMC, but international studies are missing. In the present cross-sectional study, the two BMC areas object movement (OM) and self-movement (SM) as well as the associations with endogenous (age, sex, body mass index) and exogenous (participation in extracurricular sports) factors were investigated in 1721 8- to 10-year-old primary school children from nine European countries. Over 25% of the children showed need for educational motor support in OM and 20% in SM. BMC levels differed significantly between the country-specific subsamples. In all subsamples, boys showed better performances in OM, while girls scored better in SM. Older children performed better in OM and SM than younger children. Higher body mass index predicted lower BMC scores in both competence areas. Participation in ball sports was positively associated with OM and SM, and individual sports participation was a significant predictor of SM. As exogenous and endogenous variables consistently predicted BMC in all subsamples, there must be other reasons for variation in BMC levels. Future studies should address country- and school-specific characteristics like content and amount of PE.

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Zeitschrift für Grundschulforschung

ISSN

1865-3553

e-ISSN

2523-3181

Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

21

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