title: Validity and reliability of the Wood Motor Success Screening Tool in a special physical education learning laboratory.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to estimate the concurrent validity and test-retest reliability of the Wood Motor Success Screening Tool. Participants were 66 children with learning and behavioral disabilities (44 boys and 22 girls; M of age= 7.6 yr.; SD of age= 1.8 yr.). The concurrent validity was checked using the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency-Short Form as the criterion measure. A Pearson product-moment correlation of .84 (p< .01), a sensitivity index of .88, and a specificity index of .64 were found for estimating the concurrent validity. The test-retest reliability was checked using scores on the Wood Motor Success Screening Tool administered twice within a week. An intraclass correlation coefficient of .93 from the one-way analysis of variance was found for estimating the test-retest reliability. These results indicated that this test is valid and reliable for assessing young children.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA. zhangj@wmich.edu
authors.forename: Jiabei
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Dalun
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D019988:Children with Disabilities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007753:Laboratories; D007859:Learning Disabilities; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D001523:Mental Disorders; D009048:Motor Skills; D010806:Physical Education and Training; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity