How are motor skills linked to children's school performance and academic achievement?

CE Cameron, EA Cottone, WM Murrah… - Child Development …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
motor skills are linked to school performance and achievement. In this article, we summarize
work on motor skills … tapped by common motor assessments—motor coordination, executive …

Motor skills and school performance in children with daily physical education in school–a 9‐year intervention study

I Ericsson, MK Karlsson - … journal of medicine & science in …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
motor skills training during the compulsory school years is a feasible way to improve not only
motor skills but also school performance … of pupils who qualify for upper secondary school. …

Motor skills and exercise capacity are associated with objective measures of cognitive functions and academic performance in preadolescent children

SS Geertsen, R Thomas, MN Larsen, IM Dahn… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
… (PE) and motor skill training during the compulsory school years not only led to improved
motor skills but was also accompanied by improved school performance in adolescence [11]. …

[PDF][PDF] Daily physical education improves motor skills and school performance–a nine-year prospective intervention study

I Ericsson, MK Karlsson - … Journal of Medicine & Science in …, 2012 - bashflak.wordpress.com
motor skills training in primary school is a feasible way to improve not only motor skills but
also marks in school … activity and motor skills training could improve school performance. The …

Relationships between academic performance, SES school type and perceptual‐motor skills in first grade S outh A frican learners: NW‐CHILD study

AE Pienaar, R Barhorst… - Child: care, health and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… -motor skills contribute to a variety of basic learning skills … between academic performance
and perceptual-motor skills in first … status) school type plays a role in such a relationship. …

[HTML][HTML] A possible relationship between school performance and motor skills: a neural network approach

C Kuśnierz, MF Glaner, A Tukiendorf… - Revista Brasileira de …, 2011 - SciELO Brasil
… for motor skills in children, few of them have evaluated the relationship between school
performance … between school grades and selected motor skills in middle school adolescents. For …

Motor skills, attention and academic achievements. An intervention study in school years 1–3

I Ericsson - British Educational Research Journal, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
… In order to study development of motor skills in relation to physical activity in school, motor
skill … levels of cognitive or academic performance and motor (often labeled perceptual‐motor) …

[PDF][PDF] Cardiorespiratory fitness and motor skills in relation to cognition and academic performance in children–a review

EA Haapala - Journal of human kinetics, 2013 - sciendo.com
… Studies concerning the relationship between motor skills and cognitive functions also did …
and motor skills may be beneficial for cognitive development and academic performance but …

Motor skills are more strongly associated to academic performance for girls than boys

E Cinar, C Fitzpatrick, ML Almeida… - … Journal of School …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
… of fine and gross motor skills to academic and attentional performance at school entry
among 832 boys and girls. Children were tested on their fine and gross motor skills (locomotor, …

Fundamental motor skills, nutritional status, perceived competence, and school performance of Brazilian children in social vulnerability: Gender comparison

GC Nobre, NC Valentini, FSS Nobre - Child Abuse & Neglect, 2018 - Elsevier
… The aim of this study was to investigate fundamental motor skills (locomotor and object
control) and school (writing, arithmetic, reading) performances, the perceived competence and …