- Title
- Objectivity, Reliability, and Validity of the Basketball Throw Test as a Health-related Measure of Upper-Body Muscular Strength in a Sample of Algerian Primary School Children
- Creator
- Belhaidas, Mohammed B.; Dahoune, Oumri; Eather, Narelle; Oukebdane, Mohammed Anis
- Relation
- Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science Vol. 27, Issue 1, p. 1-9
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1091367X.2021.2021205
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- This study investigated the objectivity, reliability, and the validity of the Basketball Throw Test (BTT) as an upper-body muscular strength measure. Participants (33 boys and 32 girls; mean age = 8.75 ± 1.47) performed the BTT on 2 occasions (1-week apart), and the hand-grip test as criterion measure. The objectivity and reliability were estimated using an intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC2,1) and graphically examined according to the Bland-Altman approach. Pearson correlation coefficient and the known-differences method was employed to determine validity. The BTT demonstrated high objectivity ICC2,1 = 0.90 (95% CI, 0.84–0.94), reliability ICC2,1 = 0.91 (95% CI, 0.86–0.95) and validity (r = 0.77, p <.001). The Bland–Altman method graphically confirmed intraclass correlation data. The significant difference in the BTT scores between 6-year-old children (1.61 ± 0.23) and 10-year-old children (t = −12.64, p < .001) provided additional support of validity. The BTT test is a feasible measure of upper-body muscular strength in school-aged children.
- Subject
- health-related fitness; inter-rater; test-retest; reproducibility; sports
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1468753
- Identifier
- uon:48096
- Identifier
- ISSN:1091-367X
- Language
- eng
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