Parents’ Perceptions of a University-based Children’s Physical Activity Program
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Abstract
Physical inactivity has been called a crisis facing Canadian children and youth. Universities play a role in addressing this crisis; training future health professionals and educators and offering publicly accessible programming, such as physical activity programming. This study evaluates a children’s university-based physical activity program. A mixed-methods design was employed, capturing parents’ experience within the program through an online survey and one-on-one interviews. Participants felt that the program offered a safe place for their children to learn about their abilites while developing social and physical skills. Parents spoke to the importance of offering a quality program in an inclusive environment which could benefit both the university and community. Universities that have appropriate facilities are in a position to provide physical activity programming for their communities, offering potential learning opportunities for students and impacting health and physical activity levels of the community. Keywords : physical literacy; physical education; health promotion; university-based programming; experiential learning RESUME Les enfants et les jeunes Canadiens vivent ce qu’il est convenu d’appeler une crise de l’inactivite physique. Les universites jouent un role dans la resolution de cette crise par leur engagement dans la formation de professionnels de la sante, d’educateurs et en offrant des programmes d’activite physique ouverts aux enfants. Cette etude a pour but d’evaluer un tel programme offert a des enfants dans des installations universitaires. Une approche mixte de recherche a permis de decrire l’experience de parents dans ce programme: un questionnaire en ligne et une entrevue individuelle. Les participants estiment que le programme offre un endroit securitaire a leurs enfants pour developper leurs habiletes tant physiques que sociales. Les parents mentionnent l’importance d’offrir un programme de qualite dans un environnement inclusif au benefice de la communaute et de l’universite. Les universites disposant d’installations appropriees peuvent offrir des programmes d’activite physique a leur communaute, ouvrant ainsi la porte a des occasions d’apprentissage pour les eleves, ce qui peut influencer la sante et le niveau d’activite physique de cette communaute. Mots cles : litteratie physique; education physique; promotion de la sante; programmation en milieu universitaire; apprentissage experientiel
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".