The purpose of this study was to assess the test‐retest reliability of a Greek version of the Movement Assessment Battery for Children Checklist (MABCC, Sugden and Sugden, 1991). The checklist is a valid instrument It has been designed to be usedby teachers, parents and other professionals working with children with movement difficulties. The MABCC exploresthe relationshipbetween the child and the environment within which he/she is moving. It comprises four sections. Each section includes 12 items giving a total of 48 items. The sample for this study was drawn from 10 elementary schools randomly selected from a pool of elementary schools with a total of 200 children (100 boys and 100 girls). Each school's physical education specialist was asked to complete the MABCC for each of the selected children in the specific school. Two weeks afterthe last MABCC was returned and without prior warning, 50% of the checklists were completed again on the same children as a measure of reliability. Twenty were either incomplete or not returned. Thus 80 test‐retest checklists were analysed for this study. The reliability coefficients were high for the total checklist score (Kendall's W=.93) as well as for the separate section scores (Kendall's W=.87‐.97). A further analysis was performed including the checklists of those children who, according to test norms, fell under the lowest 15% thus had some degree of movement difficulties. The coefficients from this further analysis were high for the total checklist score (ICC=.94) and for the separate section scores (ICC=.81‐.97), which was in accordance with the initial results. The results of this study are encouraging and seem to support the stability of this Greek version of the MABCC.
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