—The purpose of this study was to assess whether a treadmill mile is an acceptable FitnessGram® Test substitute for the traditional one-mile run for middle school boys and girls. Peak heart rate and perceived physical exertion of the participants were also measured to assess students’ eff ort. 48 boys and 40 girls participated, with approximately 85% classifi ed as Hispanic. Boys’ mean time for...

abstract background: emotional intelligence as the ability to understand one and others, to communicate with people, to adapt and cope with environmental stress is defined. skills such as self-awareness, self-management, emotional awareness, emotional intelligence, relationship management as a recognized are four skills methods: this descriptive cross-sectional correlation in the 92-91 school y...

Studies examining student motivation levels suggest that this is a significant factor in students' engagement in physical education and may be positively affected when teachers employ alternative pedagogical models such as game-centered approaches (GCAs). The aim of this study was to investigate changes in self-determined motivation of students as they participated in a GCA-basketball unit taug...

OBJECTIVE To assess the test-retest reliability and validity of the physical activity questions in the World Health Organisation health behaviour in schoolchildren (WHO HBSC) survey. METHODS In the validity study, the Multistage Fitness Test was administered to a random sample of year 8 (mean age 13.1 years; n = 1072) and year 10 (mean age 15.1 years; n = 954) high school students from New So...

OBJECTIVE An examination of the frequency and impact of workplace sexual harassment on work, health, and school outcomes on high school girls is presented in two parts. The first compares the frequency of harassment in this sample (52%) to published research on adult women that used the same measure of sexual harassment. The second part compares outcomes for girls who experienced harassment ver...

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention to reduce bicycle injuries among rural middle school students in China. A one-year cluster-randomized controlled trial was conducted with seventh grade students from six middle schools in two towns in rural Chaoshan, China. The two towns were randomly assigned to either the intervention or control group. Road safety education mat...

OBJECTIVE To compare two groups of school age girls from different social strata were compared in terms of their perception and knowledge about breastfeeding. METHODS A structured questionnaire was applied to all 346 4th to 8th grade girls attending two schools, a private one, whose students belonged to the upper class (School A), and a public one, whose students belonged to the lower class (...

This study was conducted to examine students‟ attitude towards science. The sample of the study consisted of 3526 students of 10 grade (Boys = 1914, Girls = 1612) and were from urban (n = 2304) and rural (n = 1222) localities of Pakistan. The instrument administered was „„Test of Science Related Attitudes‟‟ (TOSRA) developed by Fraser (1981). Results of the study depicted a significant effect o...