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Article: Quantification of physical activity in middle school physical education.(Research Works)
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- JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance
- Article date:
- February 1, 2008
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Various policy groups have identified engagement in physical education as an essential way for youths to acquire the recommended levels of physical activity (PA). Despite such an endorsement for physical education, relatively little objective information is available about the amount of PA that children get during classes. As a benchmark, objective 22:10 in Healthy People 2010 recommends that adolescents be active for at least 50 percent of the lesson time. In an effort to develop an easily deployed and readily available tool to assess activity levels of middle school students in physical education Scruggs (2007) examined the viability of ...
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