Criterion Validity Of Various Components Of Recreational Physical Fitness Test For School Going Children

Aim: The purpose of this study was to establish criterion validity of newly developed recreational tests on various components of physical fitness. Methods: The subjects for this study were selected from several government high schools in the Jammu district. The participants were boys between the ages of 13 and 15, selected using the simple sampling technique. There are almost 180 government high schools in the Jammu district, thus 20 were chosen at random to conduct this study. To develop norms the data was collected from the 1120 high school boys. The recreational physical fitness tests were constructed for selected fitness components which were agility, strength, endurance, speed and coordination. Face validity was developed for the test items based on reports and recommendations from various officials and experts, as well as information obtained from existing literature and their face values. Also the criterion validity was established by correlating the scores of new developed recreational fitness tests with the standardized physical fitness tests using pearson product moment correlation coefficient. Results: All the constructed recreational physical fitness i.e recreational agility test, recreational upper body strength test, recreational abdominal strength test, recreational hand eye coordination test and recreational speed test showed high criterion related validity. Conclusion: The study's findings revealed that the newly constructed recreational physical fitness tests satisfied the criterion validity and will be used to assess the fitness of school going children in a recreational way.