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Motor Competency And Physical Activity In Young Ambassadors Of Physical Education, Wesley Geer, Courtney Norman, Julia Looper
Motor Competency And Physical Activity In Young Ambassadors Of Physical Education, Wesley Geer, Courtney Norman, Julia Looper
Physical Therapy Research Symposium
The purpose of this study is to determine whether the TGMD-2 can identify the children in the Young Ambassadors (YA) program as competent in their motor skills, and determine if there is a link between the overall physical activity level of the children in YA and their motor competency scores. It was hypothesized that the TGMD-2 would misclassify YA participants as having average motor competence due to their participation in non-traditional motor skills, and that children with higher levels of physical activity would score higher on the TGMD-2. 12 participants were recruited from the Tacoma Public Schools 2017 YA program. …