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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jun 19.
Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2006 Jul;38(7):1229–1235. doi: 10.1249/01.mss.0000227307.34149.f3

TABLE 1.

Lesson length, energy expenditure, and minutes per lesson for girls' activity and lesson contexts.

All Lessons
Field Site
Test of Equality across Field Sites
(N = 431) Mean (SD) (N = 70−74) Range F P r
Lesson length (min) 37.3 (9.4) 34.0−40.0 0.46 0.804 0.27
Lesson TEE (kcal·kg−1) 2.7 (0.8) 2.4−3.0 1.30 0.292 0.42
Student activity (min)
    Lying down 0.2 (0.7) 0.0−0.6 3.16 0.021 0.59
    Sitting 11.9 (9.6) 6.6−17.3 6.23 <0.001 0.71
    Standing 11.3 (6.5) 7.6−15.0 2.98 0.026 0.58
    Walking 9.1 (5.5) 5.7−13.2 7.87 0.000 0.75
    Vigorous 4.8 (4.2) 1.7−6.4 4.50 0.004 0.65
    MVPA 13.9 (7.0) 9.0−18.8 6.01 0.001 0.71
Lesson context (min)
    Management 9.6 (5.2) 7.7−13.3 3.54 0.012 0.61
    Knowledge 3.9 (5.4) 0.5−6.0 5.95 0.001 0.71
    Fitness activity 7.1 (8.7) 2.6−10.2 2.88 0.031 0.57
    Skill drills 4.3 (7.4) 2.8−5.6 0.91 0.485 0.36
    Game play 10.9 (12.5) 8.3−15.3 0.78 0.575 0.34
    Free play 1.4 (5.7) 0.0−4.0 0.76 0.585 0.34

TAAG field site comparisons: ndf = 5; ddf = 30. TEE, total energy expenditure estimation; MVPA, moderate to vigorous physical activity (walking + vigorous).