ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Sports Act. Living
Sec. Physical Education and Pedagogy
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fspor.2025.1514221
This article is part of the Research TopicAdvancing Motor Coordination Therapy for Children with Developmental DisordersView all 3 articles
A school-year mini basketball curricular program promotes fundamental movement skills of urban Chinese preschoolers with typical development
Provisionally accepted
- 1Beijing Sport University, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
- 2Capital Normal University, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
- 3Daxing Xinyuan School, Beijing, China
- 4Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Millersville, Pennsylvania, United States
- 5Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
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The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of a school-year skill-based mini basketball program on the fundamental movement skills (FMS) of urban Chinese preschoolers. A cluster randomized trial was conducted, in which 18 intact classes were randomly assigned to either the mini basketball (MB; 9 classes) or conventional physical education (CP; 9 classes) group. Children in the MB group received the MB curricular intervention, while the CP group received regular physical education curriculum. The motor development was evaluated by the Test of Gross Motor Development 2 nd Edition. The results of the 2 × 2 (time × group) multivariate analysis of variance with repeated measures showed that MB program significantly improved the FMS of the preschoolers compared to the CP program. Our findings also revealed that the effects of MB for object control were affected by age, which the four-and five-year-old children demonstrated more significant improvements than the threeyear-olds. The findings of this study suggest that MB may be an effective intervention to promote FMS development.
Keywords: preschool, Structured mini basketball program, Physical education curricular program, Motor development, TGMD-2
Received: 20 Oct 2024; Accepted: 14 Apr 2025.
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* Correspondence:
Menghan Wu, Beijing Sport University, Beijing, 100084, Beijing Municipality, China
Meiqi Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, Beijing Municipality, China
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