Xiandi You, Wenyi Wu
Assessing the impact of Medical Education's Innovation & Entrepreneurship Program in China
BMC medical education
movement assessment battery children2 mabc2 popular assessment childrens motor skills western eastern countries since childrens motor skills strongly influenced sociocultural context essential specifically examine applicability mabc2 different cultures performance mabc2 age band 1 children taiwan compared standardized sample united kingdom sex differences performance mabc2 also investigated children aged 3 6 years recruited categorized 4 age groups researchers assessed children mabc2 age band 1 containing 8 tasks categorized 3 components manual dexterity aiming catching balance z tests effect sizes used examine cultural differences 3 components total scale mabc2 independent tests used check sex differences mabc2 data 615 children mean age 495 years sd 097 collected clinically significant differences effect size 05 found 2 components total scale mabc2 across age groups children taiwan performed better manual dexterity balance total scale marginally clinically significant differences absolute effect size 04 found aiming catching component children aged 3 6 years old children taiwan scored lower aiming catching children united kingdom girls significantly higher scores manual dexterity balance total scale boys significantly higher scores aiming catching cultural sex differences exist mabc2 constructing norm children taiwan different sex modification items suggested application mabc2 taiwan