主办单位:成都体育学院
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Journal of Chengdu Sport University ›› 2021, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (2): 58-64.doi: 10.15942/j.jcsu.2021.02.010

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Analysis and Enlightenment of American Test of Gross Motor Development

LI Bo1, DIAO Yucui2, LI Jing2, HONG Jintao3, SUN Jiangang4, LIU Yang1,5   

  1. 1. School of Physical Education and Sport Training, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai 200438;
    2. School of Physical Education, Shandong Normal University,Jinan Shandong 250358;
    3. Shanghai Research Institute of Sports Science (Shanghai Anti-Doping Agency), Shanghai 200030;
    4. School of Physical Education,West Anhui University, Luan Anhui 237012;
    5. Shanghai Research Center for Physical Fitness and Health of Children and Adolescents, Shanghai 200438
  • Received:2019-10-29 Revised:2020-09-24 Online:2021-03-15 Published:2021-03-26

Abstract: Based on the perspective of applying evaluation systems, this paper conducted a research on the Test of Gross Motor Development (TGMD) in the United States, including its development background, measurement and evaluation system, reliability, advantages and disadvantages, and application to promote the research on children's movement developmentin China. The results show that the origin and development of TGMD has a specific social and academic background; after 30 years of development, the TGMD series has become the most widely used assessment tool for children's gross motor skills in the world for it has been highly standardized. While TGMD has shortcomings in indicator applicabilityand process evaluation, which deserve users' attention.By interpreting the TGMD series and the Chinese translation of the latest version of the scoring table, this present paper, with reference to its application situation in China, makes some enlightenment for the study on children's movement development in China interms of both perspective and method.

Key words: Test of Gross Motor Development(TGMD), Classical Test Theory, Norm-referenced Test, children, lifelong sports, fundamental movement/motor skill

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