Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2019

DOI

10.1123/jtpe.2018-0146

Publication Title

Journal of Teaching in Physical Education

Volume

38

Issue

3

Pages

214-220

Abstract

Purpose: This study aims to (a) examine elementary school students' health-related fitness knowledge growth under one curriculum condition and (b) examine the impacts of student/school-level factors on health-related fitness knowledge and its growth rate in physical education. Method: We used an observational, longitudinal repeated-measures design, and conducted analyses on an existing dataset. Participants were 7,479 third, fourth, and fifth graders (48.9% girls) from 152 elementary schools. Measures were a knowledge test and sex at the student level, and socioeconomic data, academic performance, and student–faculty ratio at the school level. We ran three-level hierarchical linear models on the data. Results: Fitness knowledge growth was found to form a quadratic curve from third through fifth grades. School-level academic performance was positively associated with fitness knowledge. Sex was not associated with fitness knowledge or knowledge growth rate. Discussion: These findings contribute to the understanding of health-related fitness knowledge growth among elementary students.

Rights

Accepted author manuscript version reprinted, by permission, from Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2019, 38, 3, 214-220, https://doi.org/10.1123/jtpe.2018-0146. © Human Kinetics, Inc.

Original Publication Citation

Zhu, X., & Haegele, J. A. (2019). Three-year health-related fitness knowledge growth in one curriculum context: Impact of sociodemographic factors. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 38(3), 214-220. https://doi.org/10.1123/jtpe.2018-0146

ORCID

0000-0002-5048-3464 (Zhu), 0000-0002-8580-4782 (Haegele)

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