Motor Competence Assessment (MCA): portuguese normative values Conference Paper

Motor competence (MC) relationship with the developmnet of healthy life styles is well known. Nontheless, there is no established instrument able to measure this "new" construct along the life span, and the ones usually cited in the literature were mostly built for the diagnosis of children in risk for motor impairment, lack objectivity or fidelity in the assessment protocol, or do not assess the three components of MC: locomotor, stability and manipulative

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