@article{ref1,
title="Gender differences in motor skill proficiency from childhood to adolescence: a longitudinal study",
journal="Research quarterly for exercise and sport",
year="2010",
author="Barnett, Lisa M. and van Beurden, Eric and Morgan, Philip J. and Brooks, Lyndon O. and Beard, John R.",
volume="81",
number="2",
pages="162-170",
abstract="Students' proficiency in three object control and three locomotor skills were assessed in 2000 (M age = 10.06 years, SD = 0.63) in New South Wales, Australia and in 2006-07 (M age = 16.44 years, SD = 0.64). In 2006-07, 266 students, 138 girls (51.9%) and 128 boys (48.1%), had at least one skill reassessed. Boys were more object control proficient than girls. Childhood object control proficiency significantly predicted (p = .001) adolescent object control proficiency (r2 = .39), and, while gender was significant (p = .001), it did not affect the relationship between these variables (p = .53). Because childhood object control proficiency is predictive of subsequent object control proficiency, developing skills in childhood is important.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0270-1367",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}