title: Effects of strategy use on children's motor performance in a continuous timing task.
abstract: The purposes of this study were to associate age-related performance deficits in children with the use of recall strategies and to determine whether children who performed poorly in cycling would benefit from learning a recall strategy. In Experiment 1, 18 younger children (ages 5-7years) and 18 older children (ages 8-10 years) were asked to recall selected pedaling cadences. The majority of the older children used strategies and performed with less error than the younger children. In Experiment 2, children with a high number of errors in Experiment 1 were assigned to an experimental or a control group. The children in the experimental group were taught to use a specific recall strategy. The results showed that children who received the instruction in strategy use improved their performance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health and Human Performance, Texas State University-San Marcos, Jody L. Jensen is with the Department of Kinesiology and Healty,ooooooo Texas-Austin. 78666, USA. tingliu@txstate.edu
authors.forename: Ting
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Jody L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Jensen
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001245:Association Learning; D001642:Bicycling; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D009048:Motor Skills; D012153:Retention, Psychology; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis