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Atli, Ahmet – Journal of Educational Issues, 2021
This study, which included 50 young amateur male footballers aged between 16 and 18, aims to compare certain physical and performance parameters of young football players based on positions. Based on their positions, the footballers were divided into two groups as "central" and "wing" positioned players. The body composition,…
Descriptors: Males, Adolescents, Athletes, Team Sports
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Genç, Ayça – International Education Studies, 2020
The aim of this study is to examine the effect of wrestling education on some physical and motoric parameters in high school students. 42 volunteer men aged 15-17, who received regular wrestling training, participated in the study. In the study, after all, subjects were divided into 3 groups according to age groups, body weight, height, BMI, claw,…
Descriptors: Athletics, Psychomotor Skills, High School Students, Training
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Machado, João Cláudio; Barreira, Daniel; Teoldo, Israel; Travassos, Bruno; Júnior, João Bosco; Santos, João Otacílio Libardoni Dos; Scaglia, Alcides José – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2019
Purpose: This study aimed to investigate if player tactical skill level and age category influence team performance and player exploratory behavior in tasks with different difficulty levels. Method: In total, 48 youth male soccer players participated in the study (U15, n = 24, mean age = 13.06 [plus or minus] 1.53 years; U17, n = 24, mean age =…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Difficulty Level, Efficiency, Athletes
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Adigüzel, Niyazi Sidki – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
This study aimed to compare dynamic balance education among young athletes in different sports. So forty male volunteers in soccer (n = 11), handball (n = 6), sprinting (n = 10), and martial arts (n = 13) participated in the current study. The mean age, height, and weight of the participants were 15.7 ± 0.5 years, 175.3 ± 4.6 cm, and 63.0 ± 6.8…
Descriptors: Males, Athletes, Athletics, Team Sports
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Bayraktar, Isik; Bayrakdar, Akan – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
This research was conducted to determine whether there are differences between the norm values used in the evaluation of children who train in different sports and physical education lessons according to the chronological age and biological age of the children. The research group consists of a total of 239 male students of 13 (n=116) and 14…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Athletics, Age Differences, Biology
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Donmez, Kursad Han – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
This study comparatively examines aggression and self-esteem among Turkish versus international (foreign) male super and premier league soccer players playing for the Turkish Football Federation. A sample population of one hundred twelve (112) out of all possible athletes of the above description has been featured in this study. Both Coopersmith's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Aggression, Self Esteem, Athletes
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Jeong, Jae Hoon; Choi, Youn Seon; Yoo, Soojin; Jeoung, Bog Ja – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2017
This study was conducted to examine the Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS) levels of male students with intellectual disabilities between the ages of 10 and 18 years old. A total of 126 students with intellectual disabilities (IQ < 50), who were attending special education schools in South Korea, participated in the study. FMS were assessed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Students with Disabilities
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Nalbant, Özgür – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
Objective: The comparison of the physical and motoric features of the children continuous sport school within team sports. Method: A total of 60 male athletes from 9 to 10 years participated as volunteers in the Galatasaray Sports Club for three months in basketball and volleyball. 27 of these athletes were basketball players and 33 were…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Team Sports, Males, Athletes
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Bayraktar, Isik; Yaman, Nigar; Zorba, Erdal; Yaman, Metin; Günay, Mehmet – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The aim of this study consists of the analysis of certain differences in motor skills of male children who are sedentary and in the age group of 9-14, in relation to the biological maturity. 522 sedentary male children from various parts of Turkey participated in this study. Body height and body weight measurements were taken from the participants…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychomotor Skills, Males, Children
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Burcak, Keskin – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
The purpose of the present research is studying the effects of warm-up with two different sizes of balls on passing skills. Loughborough Soccer Passing Test (LSPT) was conducted on 28 non-elite football players, who participated in the present research for 10 training days. LSPT is a passing skill protocol established on completing 16 passes…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Team Sports, Training, Athletes
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Busquets, Albert; Marina, Michel; Angulo-Barroso, Rosa – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2013
Purpose: Improvements in motor performance and coordination may be impacted by the interaction of practice and organismic constraints. It has been proposed that these aspects of motor learning are achieved at a different time rate: first, during placement of the events (performance), and second, segmental spatiotemporal relationships…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Athletics, Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development
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Siaperas, Panagiotis; Ring, Howard A.; McAllister, Catherine J.; Henderson, Sheila; Barnett, Anna; Watson, Peter; Holland, Anthony J. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2012
The aims of this study were to investigate whether individuals with AS have impaired motor abilities and sensorimotor processing and whether these impairments were age-related. Sensorimotor abilities were examined using the Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2, and the Sensory Integration Praxis Test. Fifty boys with AS aged 7-14 years old…
Descriptors: Sensory Integration, Asperger Syndrome, Interaction, Sensory Experience
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Zawi, Khairi; Lian, Denise Koh Choon; Abdullah, Rozlina Tan – International Education Studies, 2014
Acquisition of gross motor skill is a natural developmental process for children. This aspect of human development increases with one's chronological age, irrespective of any developmental conditions. The purpose of this study was to assess the level of gross motor skill development among pre- and early school-aged children with motor disability.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Early Childhood Education
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Ribeiro, Ligia G. dos Santos Chaves; Portal, Maria de Nazare Dias; da Silva, Joao Bittencourt; Saraiva, Alan; da Cruz Monte, Gerson, Jr.; Dantas, Estelio H. M. – Biomedical Human Kinetics, 2010
Study aim: To compare two exercise training modes on the physical fitness of 10 year-old children. Material and methods: A sample of 60 schoolboys aged 10 years were randomly divided into 3 groups: Traditional (TG), trained according to the Brazilian national curricular parameters, Maturational (MG), in which the degree of difficulty of the…
Descriptors: Maturity (Individuals), Age Differences, Physical Fitness, Exercise
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Shala, Merita – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
In the light of the new developments in preschool education in Kosovo, this study attempts to carry out an assessment of the development of gross motor skills of preschool children attending institutional education. The emphasis is on creating a set of tests to measure the motor attainments of these children by conducting assessments of the…
Descriptors: Females, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences
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