Influence of the relative age effect on children’s scores obtained from the Canadian assessment of physical literacy

Abstract Background Age grouping by the imposition of a cut-off date, common in sports and education, promotes a relative age difference that is associated with developmental advantages for children who are born on the “early side” of the cut-off date and disadvantages to those born later in the sam...

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Main Authors: Caroline Dutil, Mark S. Tremblay, Patricia E. Longmuir, Joel D. Barnes, Kevin Belanger, Jean-Philippe Chaput
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-10-01
Series:BMC Public Health
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-018-5895-6