The study analyzes practical accomplishments of the Stavropol psycho-diagnostics school traditions in the young people`s psychomotor progress facilitation domain. Novelty of this research field is due to the fact that it addresses one of the fundamental issues of the modern psycho-diagnostics and applies the gifts mobilizing educational psychology tools to offer a set of express tests to rate the psychomotor/ cognitive qualities supported by a focused psychomotor/ cognitive/ athletic/ professional skills and qualities development tools. We applied a few innovative approaches in our multiannual studies to rate the psychomotor progress in schoolchildren, university students and 7-27 year-old athletes; precisely map the sensitive development periods and analyze the time delays (heterochrony) and convergence in the componential psychophysical/ athletic progress. Study reports and monographs of the research school present the psychomotor progress securing concept with the psychomotor qualities classification and progress test toolkit that may be applied to select gifted young athletes.
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