Sammendrag
The Shuttle run test is part of the EUROFIT motor fitness test battery. Even though some reliability studies of the Shuttle run have been made, no reliability studies for specific age groups as young as five years old has been reported. With the purpose of testing reliability of the Shuttle run test on five year old children, two studies were carried out in two different samples of kindergarten children. In the first study (n = 7) the test was carried out in accordance with the standard of the EUROFIT test manual, while the test procedure was changed in the second study (n = 9), in attempt to reduce the influence of motivational variables. The test was scored in accordance with the manual. To decrease small sources of error two alternative scoring procedures, involving data reduction, was tried out. The results showed no significant correlations between first and second test in any of the alternatives in study 1 or study 2. It was concluded the Shuttle run test is not reliable for five-year-old children when the sample of subjects is small.
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