Evaluation of Predictive Motor Control With Two Touchscreen Tablet-Based Tests : Reliability and Validity in School-Aged Children

As predictive motor control is an important index of neuromotor development and maturation, we developed two touchscreen tablet-based tests of this function. Our aim was to investigate the reliability and validity of both a rapid manual interception test and a pursuit tracking test, using a sample of 124 children (62 boys and 62 girls) from two age groups (7-8-year-oldss and 9-10-year-olds). Participants performed both tablet tests with a stylus (sample rate 100 Hz) with both a visible and a temporarily invisible moving target. Confirmatory factor analyses and omega coefficients showed that both tests were univariate methods that provided a reliable assessment of the latent factor related to predictive visuomotor control. As would be expected, compared to younger children, older children performed better on both manual interception and pursuit tracking. The correlations between the latent factors of the two tests at 95% confidence intervals (-.276, -.608) suggested shared variance. Thus, the touchscreen-tablet based tests of rapid manual interception and manual pursuit tracking appear psychometrically suitable for assessing the neuromotor ability of predictive control in 7-10-year-old children.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:130

Enthalten in:

Perceptual and motor skills - 130(2023), 1 vom: 21. Feb., Seite 283-300

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Psotta, Rudolf [VerfasserIn]
Dostál, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Sarvestan, Javad [VerfasserIn]
Prycl, David [VerfasserIn]
Kašpar, Ondřej [VerfasserIn]
Křížová, Ivana [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Children
Interceptive action
Journal Article
Motor control
Pursuit tracking
Tablet computer
Visuomotor skills

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Date Completed 15.03.2023

Date Revised 15.03.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1177/00315125221130815

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM346837103