Reliability and concurrent validity of the movement assessment battery forchildren

Reliability and concurrent validity of the Movement Assessment Battery for Children were evaluated Nvith a sample of 106 boys and girls, distributed i nto four age groups: 5-6 yr. (n=20), 7-8 yr. (n=20), 9-10 yr. (n=46), and 1 1-12 yr. (n=20). Test-retest reliability of the Movement Assessment Battery for Children, estimated using intraclass correlation coefficients, was hig h across all age groups, and concurrent validity yielded moderate Pearson c orrelation coefficients between the Movement battery and long and short for ms of the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency. These results supp ort the use of the Movement battery as a measure of motor ability in childr en, ages 5 to 12 years.