Movement For Sport Playkit RCT

PROJECT OVERVIEW
Recent evidence shows today’s children are the least active generation in history.
Only 20% of children reach the World Health Organisation’s recommendation of 60 minutes physical activity a day.
Moreover, children are not achieving average levels of movement competence and are dropping out of organised sport at an increasing rate, globally.
The reasons for this dropout include:
1. Loss of focus on fun
2. Overly competitive structure of sport
3. Overemphasis on technical and tactical aspects of the game
To address these problems:
- The Moverment for Sport Playkit (MSPK) was designed for coaches and teachers to develop children’s movement competence.
- This project was undertaken to measure the imact that the MSPK had on children when delivered in PE lessons.

WHAT IS THE MOVEMENT FOR SPORT PLAYKIT?
The MSPK is a collection of 14 innovative, dynamic and fun games that are non-sport specific.
These are presented as three distinct phases, increasing in task complexity, perceptual-cognitive skill demand, decision making and interaction with others.
The MSPK resource cards illustrate how to deliver and play the game and provide an assessment framework for the practitioner to score the child’s performance.