John B Bartholomew1, Esbelle M Jowers2, Vanessa L Errisuriz3, Sharon Vaughn4, Gregory Roberts5. 1. The Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States. Electronic address: jbart@austin.utexas.edu. 2. The Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States. Electronic address: ejowers@austin.utexas.edu. 3. The Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States. Electronic address: vlerrisuriz@utexas.edu. 4. Department of Special Education, The University of Texas at Austin, United States. Electronic address: srvaughn@austin.utexas.edu. 5. The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, The University of Texas at Austin, United States. Electronic address: gregroberts@austin.utexas.edu.
Abstract
BACKGROUND:Active learning is designed to pair physical activity with the teaching of academic content. This has been shown to be a successful strategy to increase physical activity and improve academic performance. The existing designs have confounded academic lessons with physical activity. As a result, it is impossible to determine if the subsequent improvement in academic performance is due to: (1) physical activity, (2) the academic content of the active learning, or (3) the combination of academic material taught through physical activity. METHODS/ DESIGN: The Texas I-CAN project is a 3-arm, cluster randomized control trial in which 28 elementary schools were assigned to either control, math intervention, or spelling intervention. As a result, each intervention condition serves as an unrelated content control for the other arm of the trial, allowing the impact of physical activity to be separated from the content. That is, schools that perform only active math lessons provide a content control for the spelling schools on spelling outcomes. This also calculated direct observations of attention and behavior control following periods of active learning. DISCUSSION: This design is unique in its ability to separate the impact of physical activity, in general, from the combination of physical activity and specific academic content. This, in combination with the ability to examine both proximal and distal outcomes along with measures of time on task will do much to guide the design of future, school-based interventions.
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BACKGROUND: Active learning is designed to pair physical activity with the teaching of academic content. This has been shown to be a successful strategy to increase physical activity and improve academic performance. The existing designs have confounded academic lessons with physical activity. As a result, it is impossible to determine if the subsequent improvement in academic performance is due to: (1) physical activity, (2) the academic content of the active learning, or (3) the combination of academic material taught through physical activity. METHODS/ DESIGN: The Texas I-CAN project is a 3-arm, cluster randomized control trial in which 28 elementary schools were assigned to either control, math intervention, or spelling intervention. As a result, each intervention condition serves as an unrelated content control for the other arm of the trial, allowing the impact of physical activity to be separated from the content. That is, schools that perform only active math lessons provide a content control for the spelling schools on spelling outcomes. This also calculated direct observations of attention and behavior control following periods of active learning. DISCUSSION: This design is unique in its ability to separate the impact of physical activity, in general, from the combination of physical activity and specific academic content. This, in combination with the ability to examine both proximal and distal outcomes along with measures of time on task will do much to guide the design of future, school-based interventions.
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