Badminton has been an old standby for PE classes through the decades. The following data will be collected: questionnaires administered to participating teachers and students comprising self-report measures, a one-week physical activity surveillance for participating students using accelerometers, and audio recordings of a selected PE class of each participating PE teacher.
In addition, parents or legal guardians of participating students will complete self-report measures of demographic information, provision of autonomy support towards out-of-school physical activity, parental affection, and parental control they provide for their children at the baseline data collection.
The proportion of sedentary activity time on holiday among underweight, normal, overweight, and obese subjects were 17.6±12.4{37cb68deedc28952cf539b2883fab1aeebe007ed2a99fb6afad134f549a43498}; 22.3±11{37cb68deedc28952cf539b2883fab1aeebe007ed2a99fb6afad134f549a43498}; 24.1±11.3{37cb68deedc28952cf539b2883fab1aeebe007ed2a99fb6afad134f549a43498}; and 22.3±10.5{37cb68deedc28952cf539b2883fab1aeebe007ed2a99fb6afad134f549a43498}. The sedentary activity of children on holiday was not significantly different, but there was a significant difference between the proportion of sedentary time in a day between groups of nutritional status (p<0.05), i.e.,="" normal="" children="" and="" overweight="">
The goal of physical education is to develop healthy, responsible students who have the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to work together in groups, think critically, and participate in a variety of activities that lead to a lifelong healthy lifestyle.
Strengthen Physical Education in Schools pdf iconPDF – 674 KB —This data brief defines physical education, provides a snapshot of current physical education practices in the United States, and highlights ways to improve physical education through national guidance and practical strategies and resources.