The variability and correlates of outdoor play in preschool-aged children
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study examined the variability, convergent validity and correlates of outdoor play (OP) in preschool-aged children. Participants were 107 preschool-aged children (3–5 years) and their parents from Edmonton, Canada, and surrounding areas. Children’s OP was measured via a parental questionnaire and the lux feature of ActiGraph accelerometers (n=98). Correlates from various levels of the socioecological framework were measured. Children had significantly higher OP in summer/fall months (versus winter months), on weekend days (versus weekdays), and when parental-reported (versus device-measured). Parental age was positively associated with children’s parental-reported OP on weekend days, and temperature was positively associated with children’s parental-reported OP in summer/fall months. Higher temperature was associated with a higher likelihood of children participating in ≥30 minutes/day of device-based measured OP (versus <30 minutes/day). Implementing interventions to promote OP in all weather, and days of the week, may help reverse the declining trend of children’s OP.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".