Girls Getting Active: Exploring a Physical Education Program Tailored to Young Women
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Adolescent girls are insufficiently active to achieve the health benefits associated with physical activity (PA). Physical education (PE) classes can provide part of the solution, yet most girls opt out when it is no longer mandatory. This qualitative case study used Self-Determination Theory (SDT) as a framework to explore female students’ motivation towards PA in one elective PE 10-12 course tailored to meet their interests and needs. A secondary objective determined if the pre-requisites and outcomes of their motivation were consistent with SDT constructs. Emerging themes reflected the elements of SDT. The students expressed their needs were supported through the PE course content and learning environment. Students felt motivated because they now enjoyed PE. Positive outcomes included PA participation, positive affect towards PE and PA, meaningful learning, and a sense of well-being. This study provides physical educators with insight to improve PA motivation and participation of girls in elective PE. Les adolescentes ne sont pas assez actives pour profiter pleinement des bienfaits possibles de l’activite physique (AP) sur la sante. Meme si les cours d’education physique (EP) offrent une solution partielle a ce probleme, les filles tendent a les abandonner des qu’ils ne sont plus obligatoires. Cette etude de cas qualitative s’inspire de la theorie de l’autodetermination pour explorer l’attitude des filles envers l’activite physique dans le cadre d’un cours facultatif d’education physique 10-12 concu sur mesure pour repondre a leurs interets et besoins. Un objectif secondaire consiste a determiner si les prerequis et les resultats de leur motivation sont conformes aux premisses qui sous-tendent la theorie de l’autodetermination. Des thematiques emergentes refletent les premisses de la theorie de l’autodetermination. Les eleves disent que le contenu du cours d’education physique et le contexte d’apprentissage repondent a leurs besoins. Elles se sentent motivees parce qu’elles aiment maintenant l’education physique. Entre autres resultats positifs, mentionnons la participation a l’activite physique, une attitude positive envers l’education physique et l’activite physique, un apprentissage valable et un sentiment de bien-etre. Cette etude propose aux enseignants des facons d’ameliorer la motivation des eleves a l’egard de l’activite physique et la participation des filles aux cours d’education physique facultatifs.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".