Exploring Family Child Care as a Context for Physical Activity
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Abstract
Emerging evidence suggests that young children are very inactive during child care. Our aim was to increase our understanding of the family child care environment as it relates to the promotion of physical activity and motor skill development for young children. A survey of care providers' perceptions of predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing factors for physical activity was completed by 138 respondents; additionally four focus group interviews were conducted. Care providers were positively predisposed toward physical activity, yet they encountered barriers associated with the unique circumstance of family child care, including: the diversity of children in care, licensing safety regulations, rules for play indoors, and the size of indoor spaces for play. Care providers felt that resources providing 'how to' ideas that appreciated the distinctive nature of family child care would be useful. De nouvelles donnees portent a croire que les jeunes enfants qui frequentent les garderies en milieu familial tendent a etre tres inactifs physiquement. Les auteures ont cherche a comprendre le contexte particulier des services de garde d'enfants en milieu familial dans l'optique de promouvoir l'activite physique et l'acquisition des habiletes motrices chez les jeunes enfants. Un sondage a ete mene aupres de 138 gardiennes pour cerner les facteurs de predisposition, d'encouragement et de renforcement pouvant favoriser l'activite physique. Quatre seances ont aussi ete organisees avec des groupes de consultation. Il en ressort que les gardiennes sont favorablement predisposees envers l'activite physique, mais se heurtent a des obstacles uniques aux garderies en milieu familial, soit la diversite des enfants desservis, les questions de securite liees a l'octroi des permis, les regles des jeux interieurs et la grosseur de l'aire de jeu a l'interieur. Les gardiennes etaient d'avis qu'il serait utile de produire des ressources pour leur fournir des trucs et des idees qui tiennent compte de la nature particuliere des garderies en milieu familial.
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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 | 0.001 |
| 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) | 0.000 | 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".