Intended for occupational therapists, physical therapists, physical education teachers, and adapted physical education teachers. Provides a detailed history of movement skill assessment, its purposes and theoretical underpinnings. Then discusses six levels of movement skill assessment and provides eight in-depth critiques of popular assessment instruments, such as the Test of Gross Motor Development, the Movement Assessment Battery for Children Checklist, and the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Test of Gross Motor Development
Horvat, M., Kalakian, L., Croce, R., & Dahlstrom, V. (2011). Developmental/adapted physical education: Making ability count (5th ed.). San Francisco: Cummings. Johnson, J. (2012). Postural assessment. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
Video Tools for Teaching Motor Skill Assessment
Fundamental Movement Skills Assessment Manual
The Apache Motor Skills Assessment Test (AMSAT) is a norm-referenced and criterion-referenced test to evaluate students ages 10 to 14 years in advanced motor skill performance.
Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes. Koegel, R.L., Dyer, K. and Bell, L.K. (1987) The influence of child-preferred activities on autistic children's social behavior. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 20, 243–252.
Thus, the descriptors of the 58 motor items and the administration and scoring guidelines have stood the test of time and remain unchanged in this second edition.
To foster physical literacy, we should create learning environments that provide room for exploration, allows emergences of (functional) variability, and foster movement adaptability in beginners and advanced learners.
Ambulatory assessment involves the acquisition of psychological data and/or physiological measures in everyday life according to an explicit assessment strategy which relates data, theoretical constructs, and empirical criteria specific ...
The series is especially recommended for children ages 5 and up who have coordination and movement difficulties.