Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Test of Gross Motor Development-2

• Published in: Measurement in physical education and exercise science Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 202 - 209
• Main Authors: Wong, Ka Yee Allison, Yin Cheung, Siu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia Taylor & Francis Group 01-07-2010; Routledge; Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Subjects: Asian people; Children; Children & youth; Computation; confirmatory factor analysis; Discriminant analysis; Exercise; Factor Analysis; Factor Structure; Foreign Countries; Goodness of Fit; Hong Kong; Maximum Likelihood Statistics; Motor Development; Physical education; Test of Gross Motor Development; Tests; Hong Kong; Hong Kong China; China
• ISSN: 1091-367X; 1532-7841
• DOI: 10.1080/10913671003726968

The purpose of this study was to examine the underlying structure of the second edition of the Test of Gross Motor Development-2 (
Ulrich, 2000
) as applied to Chinese children. The Test of Gross Motor Development-2 was administered to 626 Hong Kong Chinese children. The outlier test with standard scoring was utilized. After data screening, a total of 614 cases (N = 614) were used for further analysis. The two-factor structure of the Test of Gross Motor Development-2 was tested using confirmatory factor analysis with maximum likelihood estimation to compute parameter estimates and to select the appropriate item for each factor. The goodness-of-fit indices supported that the model was tenable (goodness-of-fit index = .95, root mean square error of approximation = .06, standardized root mean square residual = .04, comparative-fit index = .97). The findings of this study suggested that the two-factor structure proposed by
Ulrich (2000
) fit the data of Hong Kong Chinese children.