Relationship of Motor Skill Competency and Physical Fitness to Physical Activity in Elementary School Students
Overview
This study examined how well elementary students demonstrated motor skill competency as a result of participating in the evidence-based quality physical education program and investigated relationships between levels of health-related physical fitness and physical activity in school-aged children.
Study Type
- Study Type: Interventional
- Study Design
- Allocation: N/A
- Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
- Study Primary Completion Date: December 2013
Interventions
- Behavioral: New physical education instructions
Arms, Groups and Cohorts
- Experimental: New Physical Education Instructions
Clinical Trial Outcome Measures
Primary Measures
- Running skill assessment
- Time Frame: 2 years
- changes in manipulative skill between the intervention year 1 and the intervention year 2. The K-1 students’ motor skill competency in running, weight transferring, hand dribbling, and underhand catching skills was assessed using four PE Metrics skill assessment rubrics in the intervention year 1 and year 2, respectively.
- Weight transferring skill assessment
- Time Frame: 2 years
- changes in manipulative skill between the intervention year 1 and the intervention year 2. The K-1 students’ motor skill competency in running, weight transferring, hand dribbling, and underhand catching skills was assessed using four PE Metrics skill assessment rubrics in the intervention year 1 and year 2, respectively.
- hand dribbling skill assessment
- Time Frame: 2 years
- changes in manipulative skill between the intervention year 1 and the intervention year 2. The K-1 students’ motor skill competency in running, weight transferring, hand dribbling, and underhand catching skills was assessed using four PE Metrics skill assessment rubrics in the intervention year 1 and year 2, respectively.
- underhand catching skill assessment
- Time Frame: 2 years
- changes in manipulative skill between the intervention year 1 and the intervention year 2. The K-1 students’ motor skill competency in running, weight transferring, hand dribbling, and underhand catching skills was assessed using four PE Metrics skill assessment rubrics in the intervention year 1 and year 2, respectively.
- FitnessGram test
- Time Frame: 1 year
- Relationship between fitness and physical activity.
- Daily physical activity participation in minutes
- Time Frame: 1 year
- Relationship between levels of fitness and daily physical activity participation.
Participating in This Clinical Trial
Inclusion Criteria
- K-5 th grade students who are enrolled in 9 elementary schools in Southeast Michigan. Exclusion Criteria:
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Gender Eligibility: All
Minimum Age: 4 Years
Maximum Age: 12 Years
Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Investigator Details
- Lead Sponsor
- University of Michigan
- Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
- Principal Investigator: Weiyun Chen, Associate professor – University of Michigan
- Overall Official(s)
- Weiyun Chen, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, University of Michigan
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