Abstract
In physical education classes, some learners’ motor skills hardly improve due to their clumsiness whereas other learners can develop their motor skills to a more advanced level. Enhancing motor skills of students with underachievement of motor skill is an important task of physical education teachers. In this study, two surveys were conducted in order to develop a scale for screening university students with motor skills underachievement. The purposes of the first survey were to identify appropriate questions to be included in the scale, and to define its factorial structure. A questionnaire survey was conducted with university students (N = 312) and their responses were analyzed. Then, the questions used in the scale were narrowed down to 8 items, based on the relationships between questions and external criteria. Factor analysis indicated that the scale consisted of two subscales: ‘Underachievement of body control skills’ and ‘Underachievement of ball control skills.’ High correlation coefficients were observed between these two subscales and external criteria, indicating that the scale had sufficient criterion-related validity. In the second survey, the 8 items used in the first survey were administered twice to university students (N = 77) and testretest reliability of the scale was examined. Results indicated an acceptable level of reliability with the testretest correlation coefficients mostly exceeding r=0.8. It was concluded that this scale had adequate reliability and validity.
