Authors: Liu, John; Wrisberg, Craig A.

Source: Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, Volume 76, Number 1, March 2005 , pp. 20-27(8)

Publisher: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance

Abstract:

In the present study, an attempt was made to examine the nature and persistence of bilateral transfer of a throwing skill for a large sample of male and female children. One hundred sixty children ages 6, 8, 10, and 12 years were randomly assigned to either an experimental or control group with an equal number of boys and girls in each group. The experiment lasted 2 days and consisted of a pretest, a practice phase, an immediate transfer test, and a delayed transfer test. On the pretest, each participant performed 10 trials of a novel one-hand throwing task. Following the pretest, participants in the experimental group practiced the skill with the hand opposite the one used during the pretest until they had successfully reached a designated criterion for their age. Participants in the control group performed a balancing activity. Following the practice phase, all participants performed immediate (10 min later) and delayed (24 hr later) transfer tests under the same conditions as the pretest. The results revealed no group differences on the pretest but significantly higher throwing accuracy for the experimental group than the control group on both transfer tests. In addition, boys' throwing accuracy was significantly superior to the girls. It was concluded that bilateral transfer of throwing accuracy can be both a temporary and relatively persistent phenomenon for children and the superior throwing accuracy for boys is consistent with similar gender differences in throwing distance and throwing velocity (Thomas & French, 1985).

Keywords: GENDER DIFFERENCES; THROWING SKILL; SKILL ACQUISITION

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5641/027013605X13076330976623

Publication date: 2005-03-01

More about this publication?

• As of February 1, 2013, American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance content will no longer be hosted on ingentaconnect. Please contact the publisher, Taylor & Francis, at http://www.tandfonline.com/ for instructions to claim access.
• Editorial Board
• Information for Authors
• Submit a Paper
• Subscribe to this Title
• Membership Information
• Information for Advertisers
• Terms & Conditions
• Abstracts of Articles
• ingentaconnect is not responsible for the content or availability of external websites

Related content

• In this: publication
• By this: publisher
• By this author: Liu, John ;  Wrisberg, Craig A.

Website © Publishing Technology. Article copyright remains with the publisher, society or author(s) as specified within the article.

• Terms and conditions
• Privacy policy
• Information for advertisers