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. 2023 Jun 9:11:e15447.
doi: 10.7717/peerj.15447. eCollection 2023.

Reliability and validity of the Körperkoordinationstest Für Kinder in Chinese children

Kai Li #  1 , Ran Bao #  2   3 , Hyunshik Kim  4 , Jiameng Ma  4 , Ci Song  5 , Sitong Chen  6 , Yujun Cai  1
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Reliability and validity of the Körperkoordinationstest Für Kinder in Chinese children

Kai Li et al. PeerJ. .

Abstract

Background: The Körperkoordinationstest Für Kinder (KTK) is a reliable and low-cost motor coordination test tool that has been used in several countries. However, whether the KTK is a reliable and valid instrument for use in Chinese children has not been assessed. Additionally, because the KTK was designed to incorporate locomotor, object control, and stability skills, and there is a lack of measurement tools that include stability skills assessment for Chinese children, the KTK's value and validity are worth discussing.

Methods: A total of 249 primary school children (131 boys; 118 girls) aged 9-10 years from Shanghai were recruited in this study. Against the Test of Gross Motor Development-3 (TGMD-3), the concurrent validity of the KTK was assessed. We also tested the retest reliability and internal consistency of the KTK.

Results: The test-retest reliability of the KTK was excellent (overall: r = 0.951; balancing backwards: r = 0.869; hopping for height: r = 0.918; jumping sideways: r = 0.877; moving sideways: r = 0.647). Except for the boys, the internal consistency of the KTK was higher than the acceptable level of Cronbach's α > 0.60 (overall: α = 0.618; boys: α = 0.583; girls: α = 0.664). Acceptable concurrent validity was found between the total scores for the KTK and TGMD-3 (overall: r = 0.420, p < 0.001; boys: r = 0.411, p < 0.001; girls: r = 0.437, p < 0.001).

Discussion: The KTK is a reliable instrument for assessing the motor coordination of children in China. As such, the KTK can be used to monitor the level of motor coordination in Chinese children.

Keywords: Children; China; Internal consistency; Körperkoordinationstest Für Kinder; Motor competence; Motor coordination; Reliability; Validity.

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The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Figure 1. The test protocol of the KTK.
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Figure 2. Spearman’s rho correlation coefficient and Scatter plot between the KTK and the TGMD-3.
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