| Summary: | 碩士 === 正修科技大學 === 運動健康與休閒所 === 100 === Whole body coordination (WBC) has always been one of the key catalysts to the growth of an individual’s basic motor functions and advanced motor control development. However, with current researches in motor control development advancing in leaps and bounds, a simple, effective and cost efficient outcome measure for WBC is yet to be created. This paper aims to firstly, deduce one simple yet efficacious outcome measure that could represent an individual’s WBC, secondly, explore the development of WBC in high school students, and thirdly, identify gender differences of WBC in high school students population. Stratified random sampling was applied on a pool of 240 high school students with age ranging between 12 - 18 years old. The subjects were first examined by a series of pre-established WBC battery tests as an effective and efficient standard. They are then cross-examined with six simple, author-devised WBC outcome measures for the purpose of this study. The results were collected in descriptive data format, compared, and calculated via regression analysis. Conclusions were deduced as follow:
1) WBC could be defined as the demonstration of a singular motion; each determined by the procession of neural sensory inputs received from an individual’s four limbs as well as the head and trunk, thus leading to the in-sync performance with space and timing. It could be observed physically via one’s speed, accuracy, flow, and elegance .
2) Basketball throwing distance was the most valid outcome measure for indicating high school students’ WBC capacity.
3) High school students’ WBC increases and stabilizes with age; owing to the maturation of their neuromuscular systems.
4) Male high school students have demonstrated a higher WBC score across the board as to their female counterparts.
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