A survey on height, weight, running and aiming of nine year old Maltese children

Abstract

The survey was carried out on a sample of 410 children (230 boys and 180 girls) attending year 5 classes of three primary state schools in Malta. The following data was collected: i) Height ii) Weight iii) Time to run 35 metres iv) Success at aiming task Tentative norms have been set up for each of the variables. Age, sex and ability differences for each of these variables have been investigated together with a study comparing local findings with those of foreign studies. Sex differences on height, running and aiming success were found to be significant at the 0.01 level while on weight they were found to be significant at the 0.05 level; no statistically ability differences emerged on any of the four variables.