10 results on '"David Stodden"'
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2. Effects of Different Teaching Approaches on Proxy Measures of Physical Fitness of Italian Kindergarten Children
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Patrizia Tortella, Antonella Quinto, Guido Francesco Fumagalli, Mario Lipoma, David Stodden, and Francesco Sgrò
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physical fitness index ,playground ,free play ,structured activity ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health - Abstract
Developing physical fitness (PF) behaviors early in life enhances physical development and facilitates sustained participation in physical activity and sports across childhood. This study addressed the effect of different teaching approaches on precursors of PF in kindergarten children. A total of 178 children (5.45 ± 0.40 years, female = 92) from 11 classes were organized into three groups. Group 1 (structured activity + free play) and Group 2 (only free play) attended the same playground (PrimoSport0246) for one hour/week for 10 weeks. Group 3 (structured activity + free play in kindergarten) followed their standard physical education curriculum at school. PF tests (standing long jump, medicine ball throw, and 20 m running speed) were administered pre- and post-intervention. Factorial ANOVA was implemented using a percentage change in PF performance (PFC) as the dependent variable, and teaching approaches, gender, and age as factors. Group 1 demonstrated significant improvements in fitness performance compared with Groups 2 and 3. Moderate to large effect sizes (Cohen’s d range: 0.68–1.40) were noted in both males and females. Six-year-old demonstrated the greatest improvement in composite PFC compared to Groups 2 and 3. A structured teaching plan, even with a limited dose of once per week, supported the development of PF attributes in kindergarteners.
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- 2023
3. Testing Seefeldt’s Proficiency Barrier: A Longitudinal Study
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Maia, Fernando Garbeloto dos Santos, Matheus Maia Pacheco, David Stodden, Go Tani, and José António Ribeiro
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intervention program ,motor development ,fundamental movement skills ,transitional motor skills ,specific sport skills - Abstract
The idea that proficiency in the fundamental movement skills (FMS) is necessary for the development of more complex motor skills (i.e., the proficiency barrier) and to promote health-enhancing physical activity and health-related physical fitness levels is widespread in the literature of motor development. Nonetheless, to the best of our knowledge, there is no study assessing whether children presenting proficiency below a specified proficiency barrier would demonstrate difficulty in improving performance in more complex skills—even when subjected to a period of practice in these complex skills. The present study tested this. Eighty-five normal children (44 boys) aged 7 to 10 years participated in the study. The intervention took place during 10 consecutive classes, once a week, lasting 40 min each. Six FMS (running, hopping, leaping, kicking, catching and stationary dribbling) and one transitional motor skill (TMS) (speed dribbling skill) were assessed. The results showed that only those who showed sufficient proficiency in running and stationary dribbling before the intervention were able to show high performance values in the TMS after intervention. In addition, in line with recent propositions, the results show that the basis for development of the TMS was specific critical components of the FMS and that the barrier can be captured through a logistic function. These results corroborate the proficiency barrier hypothesis and highlight that mastering the critical components of the FMS is a necessary condition for motor development.
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- 2022
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4. Modeling the Dynamics of Children’s Musculoskeletal Fitness
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Ana Reyes, Raquel Chaves, Olga Vasconcelos, Sara Pereira, Go Tani, David Stodden, Donald Hedeker, José Maia, and Adam Baxter-Jones
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Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health - Abstract
This study models children’s musculoskeletal fitness (MSF) developmental trajectories and identifies individual differences related to effects of time-invariant, as well as time-varying covariates. A total of 348 Portuguese children (177 girls) from six age cohorts were followed for three years. MSF tests (handgrip strength, standing long jump and shuttle run), age, body mass index (BMI), socioeconomic status (SES), gross motor coordination (GMC) and physical activity (PA) were assessed. Data were analyzed using multilevel models. Between 5 and 11 years of age, boys outperformed girls in all three MSF tests (p < 0.05). Birth weight was positively associated with shuttle run performance (β = −0.18 ± 0.09, p < 0.05). BMI was positively associated with handgrip strength (β = 0.35 ± 0.04, p < 0.001) and shuttle run performance (β = 0.06 ± 0.01, p < 0.001), but negatively associated with standing long jump performance (β = −0.93 ± 0.23, p < 0.001). GMC was positively associated (p < 0.001) with all three MSF tests, while PA was associated with standing long jump (β = 0.08 ± 0.02, p < 0.05) and shuttle run (β = −0.003 ± 0.002, p < 0.05) performance only. No school environment effects were found, and SES was not related to any MSF tests. Children’s MSF development showed a curvilinear shape with increasing age, with boys outperforming girls. Weight status and physical behavior characteristics predicted MSF development, while environmental variables did not. Examining potential longitudinal predictors of MSF across multiple dimensions is important to gain a more holistic understanding of children’s physical development as well as to future interventions.
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- 2023
5. Testing Seefeldt's Proficiency Barrier: A Longitudinal Study
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Fernando Garbeloto dos Santos, Matheus Maia Pacheco, David Stodden, Go Tani, and José António Ribeiro Maia
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Male ,FITNESS ,Movement ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,transitional motor skills ,Environmental Sciences & Ecology ,Health Promotion ,MOTOR SKILL INTERVENTION ,MOVEMENT ,Humans ,motor development ,Longitudinal Studies ,Child ,fundamental movement skills ,Public, Environmental & Occupational Health ,Science & Technology ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,PERFORMANCE ,COMPETENCE ,PHYSICAL-ACTIVITY ,intervention program ,Motor Skills ,Physical Fitness ,specific sport skills ,Life Sciences & Biomedicine ,Environmental Sciences ,ESTUDOS LONGITUDINAIS - Abstract
The idea that proficiency in the fundamental movement skills (FMS) is necessary for the development of more complex motor skills (i.e., the proficiency barrier) and to promote health-enhancing physical activity and health-related physical fitness levels is widespread in the literature of motor development. Nonetheless, to the best of our knowledge, there is no study assessing whether children presenting proficiency below a specified proficiency barrier would demonstrate difficulty in improving performance in more complex skills-even when subjected to a period of practice in these complex skills. The present study tested this. Eighty-five normal children (44 boys) aged 7 to 10 years participated in the study. The intervention took place during 10 consecutive classes, once a week, lasting 40 min each. Six FMS (running, hopping, leaping, kicking, catching and stationary dribbling) and one transitional motor skill (TMS) (speed dribbling skill) were assessed. The results showed that only those who showed sufficient proficiency in running and stationary dribbling before the intervention were able to show high performance values in the TMS after intervention. In addition, in line with recent propositions, the results show that the basis for development of the TMS was specific critical components of the FMS and that the barrier can be captured through a logistic function. These results corroborate the proficiency barrier hypothesis and highlight that mastering the critical components of the FMS is a necessary condition for motor development. ispartof: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH vol:19 issue:12 ispartof: location:Switzerland status: published
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- 2022
6. Developmental Change in Motor Competence: A Latent Growth Curve Analysis
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Eline Coppens, Farid Bardid, Frederik J. A. Deconinck, Leen Haerens, David Stodden, Eva D’Hondt, Matthieu Lenoir, Movement and Nutrition for Health and Performance, Movement and Sport Sciences, Faculty of Physical Education and Physical Therapy, and Motor skills and Didactics
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Longitudinal study ,Physiology ,RJ101 ,Physical fitness ,Poison control ,030209 endocrinology & metabolism ,PHYSICAL-FITNESS ,lcsh:Physiology ,FUNDAMENTAL MOVEMENT SKILLS ,Developmental psychology ,BMI ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,children ,Physiology (medical) ,ADOLESCENTS ,Injury prevention ,Medicine and Health Sciences ,Raw score ,Competence (human resources) ,Original Research ,COORDINATION ,lcsh:QP1-981 ,Latent growth modeling ,business.industry ,Biology and Life Sciences ,Human factors and ergonomics ,latent growth curve analysis ,030229 sport sciences ,weight status ,motor competence ,Psychology ,business ,individual developmental change - Abstract
Background: The development of childhood motor competence demonstrates a high degree of inter-individual variation. Some children’s competence levels increase whilst others’ competence levels remain unchanged or even decrease over time. However, few studies have examined this developmental change in motor competence across childhood and little is known on the influencing factors). Aim: Using latent growth curve modeling (LGCM), the present longitudinal study aimed to investigate children’s change in motor competence across a two-year timespan and to examine the potential influence of baseline weight status and physical fitness on their trajectory of change in motor competence. Method: 558 children (52.5% boys) aged between 6 and 9 years participated in this study. Motor assessments took place three times across a two-year timespan. Baseline measurements included weight status, motor competence (i.e., Korperkoordinationstest fur Kinder; KTK) and physical fitness (i.e., sit and reach, standing long jump and the 20m shuttle run test). LGCM was conducted to examine change in motor competence over time, based on the raw scores of the four KTK subtests. Results: The analyses showed a positive linear change in motor competence across two years (=28.48, p
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- 2019
7. Erratum: Urbin, Stodden, & Fleisig (2013)
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David Stodden
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Cognitive Neuroscience ,Biophysics ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - Published
- 2015
8. The Association Between Motor Skill Competence and Physical Fitness in Young Adults
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David Stodden
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Nephrology ,Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation ,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine ,General Medicine - Published
- 2009
9. Lessons Learned from Adapting Aerospace Engineering Tools to the Parallel and Grid Computing Environment
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Hook Hua, Seungwon Lee, R. Carnright, David Stodden, and John Coggi
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business.industry ,Test data generation ,Computer science ,Process (engineering) ,Distributed computing ,Supercomputer ,computer.software_genre ,Data visualization ,Software ,Grid computing ,Concurrent computing ,The Internet ,Aerospace engineering ,User interface ,business ,Adaptation (computer science) ,computer - Abstract
Many widely-used aerospace data visualization tools are interactive in nature and are programmed to run on a single processor. While such tools support real-time manipulation of simulation environments, the computations that generate the data are often batch oriented and computation intensive. In many cases, the data generation software is too tuned to a single-processor infrastructure to be readily adapted for emerging parallel and grid computing environments. This paper presents several lessons learned from adapting an aerospace engineering tool to the parallel and grid computing architecture. The architecture provides the ability to perform high-power computing by distributing process execution across many computers connected by a dedicated network or the Internet. Some of the challenging tasks involved in the adaptation are (1) to decouple the user interface and display functions from the computational functions, since interaction and graphics are usually unnecessary expenses in parallel and grid computing, (2) to identify and parallelize computationally expensive functions without the drastic modification of the code and data structures, (3) to find a lightweight, yet versatile software solution for a client-server machine interface for remote job execution. The solutions we found for these elaborate tasks are presented and their pros and cons are discussed.
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- 2007
10. Promoting musculoskeletal fitness in youth: Performance and health implications from a developmental perspective
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David Stodden and Brooks, T.
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