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Lange-Kuettner, Christiane and Bosco, Giorgia (2016) On being in the wrong place: the role of children’s conceptual understanding and ballgame experience when judging a football player’s offside position. International Journal of Developmental Science, 10. pp. 73-84. ISSN 2191-7485
We investigated the role of children’s conceptual understanding and ballgame experience when judging whether a football player is in an offside position, or not. In the offside position, a player takes advantage of being behind the defence line of the opposing team and just waits for the ball to arrive in order to score a goal. We explained the offside rule to 7- and 9-year-old children with a Subbuteo setup. They produced drawings of an offside position until it was correct (drawing to criterion). Thereafter, children judged whether a designated player was in an offside position in a computerized task. Like adults, also children found it easier to judge when a player was in a wrong rather than a right place. Only when including frequency of ballgame practice in the analysis it was revealed that boys were better independently of age as they judged the offside position more systematically.
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