The Effectiveness of an e-Learning Program for Educating Physical Activity Professionals on Supporting Autistic Individuals in Physical Activity
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Physical activity (PA) benefits autistic1 individuals, yet barriers including limited support from PA professionals hinder PA engagement. Guided by the theory of planned behavior and the diffusion of innovations theory, this study used a quasi-experimental one-group pretest-posttest design to investigate the effectiveness and practicality of an e-learning program in changing PA professionals' intention and confidence to support autistic individuals in PA. PA professionals (N = 49) completed the Strong Minds Through Active Bodies e-learning program, as well as pre- and postevaluations. Results showed significant improvements in all theory of planned behavior constructs and positive feedback on the module's practicality. Tailored e-learning can enhance PA professionals' understanding and confidence in meeting the unique needs and preferences of autistic individuals in PA. Further research is warranted to understand how e-learning may be leveraged as a tool to foster more inclusive programs, ultimately encouraging greater participation by creating accessible and engaging PA environments that are supportive and conducive to active engagement for autistic individuals.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| 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".