Book chapter
Measurement of students’ playground activity levels
Contemporary school playground strategies for healthy students, pp.93-106
Springer
2017
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Abstract
Accurate measurement of students’ physical activity levels is important to determine the contribution physical activity within school playgrounds can make towards students meeting recommended daily physical activity guidelines. Assessment of physical activity is also conducted to examine the effectiveness of strategies targeting students’ physical activity within school playgrounds and to identify psychosocial and environmental factors that can affect students’ physical activity behaviour within school playgrounds. There are a number of measures that can be used effectively within the school playground context to assess the dimensions (frequency, intensity, duration, activity type) of students’ physical activity including direct observation, accelerometers, pedometers, global positioning systems (GPS) and self-reporting instruments.
Details
- Title
- Measurement of students’ playground activity levels
- Creators
- Brendon Hyndman - Southern Cross University
- Contributors
- Brendon Hyndman (Editor of compilation)
- Publication Details
- Contemporary school playground strategies for healthy students, pp.93-106
- Publisher
- Springer; Singapore
- Identifiers
- 2792; 991012820723102368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education; School of Education
- Resource Type
- Book chapter