Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Escola Superior Desporto e Lazer de Melgaço, Portugal; Research Center in Sports Sciences, Health and Human Development (CIDESD), Portugal.
Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal; Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos Educacionais, Portugal.
J Sci Med Sport. 2019 Sep;22(9):1038-1043. doi: 10.1016/j.jsams.2019.05.009. Epub 2019 May 17.
Growing evidence of the importance of motor competence for developing a healthy lifestyle has been established in the last decade. Nonetheless, no single instrument or observation tool have been able to fully measure this construct, particularly because most were built for the diagnosis of children in risk for motor impairment; are limited to a few years of the developmental span; lack objectivity in the assessment protocols; or do not include the locomotor, stability, and manipulative components. This led to the difficulty of comparing researches, and longitudinally follow children into adulthood. Recently, a novel proposal to assess motor competence was presented - the Motor Competence Assessment (MCA) - and this study aims to present the MCA normative data from 3-to-23 years.
Two thousand and eighty-seven participants (1102 boys) between 3 and 23 years of age were evaluated in the MCA (standing long jump, 10 m shuttle run, throwing velocity, kicking velocity, lateral jumps, shifting platforms). Results for each test were introduced in the LMS Chartmaker 2.3. The best model for test and sex was used, resulting in normative curves and percentile values.
Final norms showed a good fit to the instrument developmental expectations, allowing to differentiate and classify performances along the age interval.
The MCA age- and sex- normative values allow to assess motor competence from childhood to early adulthood. Future directions will include obtaining a total MCA score and the normative scores for the MCA components (stability, locomotion, object control), and to expand the norms to adulthood and old age.
在过去十年中，越来越多的证据表明运动能力对于培养健康的生活方式至关重要。尽管如此，没有任何单一的工具或观察工具能够完全衡量这一结构，特别是因为大多数工具都是为有运动障碍风险的儿童设计的；仅限于发展跨度的几年；评估协议缺乏客观性；或者不包括运动、稳定性和操作组件。这导致了研究比较的困难，也难以对儿童进行纵向跟踪直至成年。最近，提出了一种新的运动能力评估方法——运动能力评估（MCA）——本研究旨在介绍 3 至 23 岁的 MCA 正常数据。
2087 名参与者（1102 名男孩）在 MCA 中进行了评估（站立跳远、10 米往返跑、投掷速度、踢腿速度、侧跳、移动平台）。每个测试的结果都在 LMS Chartmaker 2.3 中引入。使用最佳的测试和性别模型，生成了正态曲线和百分位数值。
最终的规范值与仪器的发展预期非常吻合，允许根据年龄区间区分和分类表现。
MCA 的年龄和性别规范值允许从儿童期到成年早期评估运动能力。未来的方向将包括获得总 MCA 分数和 MCA 组成部分（稳定性、运动、物体控制）的规范分数，并将规范扩展到成年和老年。
