Validity and reliability study of the motor accuracy test in Turkey.
Fehime Senem Akbay, Ferda Dokuztuğ Üçsular, Tomris Duymaz
PMID 31417225WHAT IT FOUND
In 100 Turkish children with no disabilities, the Motor Accuracy test gave consistent scores after two weeks and its scores moved in line with an eye-hand coordination test.
It can help assess ages 6 to 8 years, 11 months, not prove treatment benefit.
Key findings
01The total raw score agreement between test and retest two weeks later was 0.813 (95% CI 0.722 to 0.874).
02MAc-R raw scores had a moderate negative relationship with DTVP-2 Eye-Hand Coordination scores, r=-0.531 (p<0.001), because a higher MAc-R raw score means poorer accuracy.
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What it does not show
The study was done at one primary school, so it may not represent other regions or schools. All children were without physical, visual, hearing, mental, or learning disabilities, so the results do not show how the test performs in children with sensory integration problems or other conditions. Children were only aged 6 to 8 years, 11 months, although the MAc-R is intended for ages 4 to 8 years, 11 months, and younger children were not tested. Turkish standard values for the MAc-R were not identified, so scores still need comparison with appropriate norms. Only the MAc-R subtest was studied, not the full SIPT or its other subtests. The validity check used only the DTVP-2 Eye-Hand Coordination Test, and the two tests did not completely correspond because MAc-R measures more than visual perception and eye-hand coordination.
Declared interests
Funded by the Scientific Research Projects Unit of Demiroglu Bilim University, project number 2016-0109, 2016. The authors declared no conflict of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that the MAc-R test identifies children who need sensory integration therapy or that such therapy will improve their school performance. The study only checked score consistency and relationship with an eye-hand coordination test in 100 children without disabilities.