Homework in Physical Education: Strategies for Promoting Healthy Lifestyles through Supplementary Home Tasks

Strategies ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Hart
2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (s1) ◽  
pp. S31-S39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole V. Harris ◽  
Andrew S. Bradlyn ◽  
Nancy O. Tompkins ◽  
Melanie B. Purkey ◽  
Keri A. Kennedy ◽  
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Background:The West Virginia Healthy Lifestyles Act contained 5 school-based mandates intended to reduce childhood obesity. These addressed the sale of healthy beverages, physical education time, fitness assessment, health education and assessment, and Body Mass Index measurement. This article describes the processes and methods used to evaluate efforts to implement the legislation.Methods:University researchers and state public health and education staff formed the collaborative evaluation team. To assess perceptions and practices, surveys were completed with school personnel (53 superintendents, 586 principals, 398 physical education teachers, 214 nurses) and telephone interviews were conducted with a multistage, stratified sample of 1500 parents and 420 students statewide. Healthcare providers (N = 122) were surveyed regarding current child weight practices and interactions with families. Statewide data reflecting fitness, physical education plans, local wellness policies, and health knowledge were included in the evaluation.Results:The evaluation was facilitated by state officials and agencies, resulting in good access to survey groups and high survey response rates for school personnel (57% to 95% response rates); a substantially lower response rate was obtained for healthcare providers (22%).Conclusions:Collaborative design and implementation was a key factor in the successful conduct of this obesity policy evaluation.


2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 655-658
Author(s):  
Courtney Pilkerton ◽  
Thomas K. Bias

Background:Public health researchers have demonstrated the potential for significant gains in physical activity through public policy. West Virginia passed House Bill 2816, known as the Healthy Lifestyles Act in 2005. This Act amended the code on the requirements of physical education and physical fitness in schools, creating minimum physical education requirements at each grade level. The goal of this policy evaluation was to identify if, 5 years postimplementation, students have increased physical education in schools.Methods:Data from the 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System surveys were used to examine the time trend of weekly PE participation in WV Schools.Results:There have been no significant changes in participation in physical education classes since before the implementation of the HLA.Conclusions:Simple policy changes by themselves may not effectively create change in physical activity environments, as policy is moderated by strength of language, implementation, and enforcement. Further studies are needed to determine why the HLA has not been successful in increasing physical activity of youth and what changes to the standards and mandates, ways implementation in schools could be improved, and/or the enforcement of these standards are needed for such policies to be successful.


Author(s):  
Николай Васенков ◽  
Nikolay Vasenkov ◽  
Илдар Хабибуллин ◽  
Ildar Habibullin ◽  
Павел Гусев ◽  
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Physical health of students is tending to deteriorate. Educational organizations should be taken administrative measures to improve the process of adaptation of entrants to college life. Organisational measures taken by the administration of the University and the Department of physical education had a positive impact on students ' knowledge about the complex GTO. Significantly more students coped with the norms of the TRP and received marks of various denominations


2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-173
Author(s):  
ARMEN GRIGORYAN

The paper analyzes the issues of physical education and healthy lifestyles in ancient and medieval Armenia, which are represented in the aspects of Hellenistic and Christian culture. The author, considering the problem in a given historical period, underlined that physical education and healthy lifestyle are due ideas of physical and spiritual harmony.


Author(s):  
Debra Callcott ◽  
Judith Miller ◽  
Susan Wilson-Gahan

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