Abstract
Abstract The main objective of this study was to establish content validity evidences in the Motor Coordination Test with Ball (MCTB). Four Ph.D. professors and former sports coaches with academic experience in the motor coordination area took part of the validation process as experts. The experts assessed four motor tasks and graded using the Likert scale from one to five for criteria of clarity of language, practice relevance, and theoretical relevance. The content validity coefficient (CVC) has been used to determine the CVCc of each task and the CVCt for the instrument as a whole, adopting as a cutoff CVCc .70 and CVCt .80. The results showed good agreement among experts concerning “clarity of language” (CVC= .89), “practice relevance” (CVC= .81), and theoretical relevance (CVC= .86). For “practice relevance” of images and videos of task execution, there has been observed CVCt of .86 and CVCt of .95, respectively. When requested the order of relevance of coordination pressures, the agreement among experts presented the existence of at least four coordination pressures in each one of the tasks and, out of these, at least two had a higher relevance. After the calculation of the CVC, ecological validity was determined for the MCTB, accrediting it as an instrument for the assessment of motor coordination with ball in the context of sports games.
Highlights
The capacity of executing several gestures or motor actions, frequently described as motor competence, is a pre-requisite to a pleasant and wellsucceeded participation in everyday, leisurable, and playful activities, whether it is during childhood, adulthood, or elder age[1]
Despite the existence of an instrument qualified as a gold pattern to assess the development and motor coordination, nowadays, there are in literature, multiple instruments that have been proposed in different areas of The Science of Sport: the Test of Gross Motor Development (TGMD2), Movement Assessment Battery for Children, 2nd edition (MABC-2), Körperkoordinationstest Für Kinder (KTK), Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency, 2nd Edition (BOT-2), Motor Development Scale (MDS), Basic Motor Competencies Assessment-MOBAK and the Motor Coordination Test with Ball- TECOBOL among others[8,9,10,11]
By observing the results obtained concerning content validity of the Motor Coordination Test with Ball (MCTB), we have concluded that this instrument attends clarity of language, practice relevance, and theoretical relevance, presenting good indices of CVCt and ecological validity
Summary
The capacity of executing several gestures or motor actions, frequently described as motor competence, is a pre-requisite to a pleasant and wellsucceeded participation in everyday, leisurable, and playful activities, whether it is during childhood, adulthood, or elder age[1]. Despite the existence of an instrument qualified as a gold pattern to assess the development and motor coordination, nowadays, there are in literature, multiple instruments that have been proposed in different areas of The Science of Sport: the Test of Gross Motor Development (TGMD2), Movement Assessment Battery for Children, 2nd edition (MABC-2), Körperkoordinationstest Für Kinder (KTK), Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency, 2nd Edition (BOT-2), Motor Development Scale (MDS), Basic Motor Competencies Assessment-MOBAK and the Motor Coordination Test with Ball- TECOBOL among others[8,9,10,11] Both national and international literature refer to these instruments to detect the coordination level in children and teenagers, most of the aforementioned tests have a restrict application in our country, for not presenting standards and classifications for Brazilian children or for not using tasks with balls or because they request motor skills used in several team sports. The MCTB presents dynamic tasks with different balls (hand-foot) that request motor skills that are part of sports games (dribble /guiding, reception, etc.) in which it assesses motor coordination with ball under combined action of coordination pressures (time, precision, simultaneity, sequence, variability, burden) as indicated by the authors of this model
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