title: Reliability of physical fitness tests administered to young children.
abstract: The purpose of this research was to establish the reliability of physical fitness tests for first- to third-grade children. The 26 subjects were randomly selected from a larger sample from urban public schools and tested individually on two days, one week apart. Tests included the Health-related Physical Fitness Test battery of AAHPERD and the modified pull-up of Baumgartner. Reliability estimates ranged from .83 to .99 for the former items so these items seem to be appropriate for assessing fitness of young children. The modified pull-up test was an unreliable item (r = .52). Two possible sources of variation in performance scores should be addressed, children's motivation and testing protocol.
authors.affiliation: College of Education, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202.
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Erbaugh
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010806:Physical Education and Training; D010809:Physical Fitness; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012885:Skinfold Thickness