Reliability and validity of children's basic motor skills testing: a systematic literature review

Background: Movement is considered natural part of life, because it affects cognitive, physical and social development. Physically active lifestyle supported by basic motor skills. There are several tests that can assess performance of basic motor skills. Purposes: The research aims critically assess, compare, and summarize the quality of measurement properties of each child's fundamental movement skill test. Method: The MEDLINE, Pubmed, SciELO, Taylor & Francis, Science Direct, Springer, SAGE, ResearchGate, and EBSCOhost databases were searched for the period 2014-2024 using specific search terms for those relevant to children's fundamental movement skill testing. The COSMIN Risk of Bias (RoB) Checklist, COSMIN good measurement properties criteria and the GRADE approach were used to assess the quality of several children's fundamental movement skill tests. Result: The search results resulted in 253 articles identified, 9 articles included. The 9 articles described construct, validity and/or reliability. The assessment of 9 tests has evidence of risk of bias extremely serious (n=3), very serious (n=1), serious (n=1), and no (n=4); evidence of grade high (n=4), moderate (n=1), low (n=1), and very low (n=3), and evidence of measurement property sufficient (n=1), insufficient (n=2), and indeterminate (n=6). Conclusion: MOBAK-3 is recommended as test of children's basic motor skills that has best evidence quality, because there is no bias risk in research methodology, high grade category, and sufficient quality of results.