Developing and validating a school-based screening tool of Fundamental Movement Skills (FUNMOVES) using Rasch analysis FUNMOVES—A school-based assessment of fundamental movement skills

Abstract

FUNMOVES was evaluated iteratively on 1067 children across years 1-6 (aged 5-11 years), across four schools to collect data for psychometric testing. Reception year (4-5 year olds, n = 48) were also tested in the initial pilot, however, due to issues with attention and comprehension (meaning that FUNMOVES could not be implemented at a whole class level) this year group was not tested in the latter two studies. Prior to testing, teaching staff were provided with an hour-long training workshop in which an introduction on the importance of measuring FMS was given and teachers role-played in inter