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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 2.

Energy expenditure rate and proportion of observed intervals for girls' activity, lesson context, and teacher physical activity promotion.

All Lessons
Field Site
Test of Equality across Field Sites
Mean (SD) Range F P r
Lesson EER (kcal·kg−1 min−1) 0.073 (0.013) 0.062−0.082 8.36 < 0.001 0.76
Student activity (%)
    Lying down 0.6 (1.8) 0.1−1.5 2.70 0.040 0.56
    Sitting 31.6 (22.6) 17.1−44.7 11.71 < 0.001 0.81
    Standing 29.9 (15.0) 22.7−37.7 4.73 0.003 0.66
    Walking 24.8 (15.1) 15.0−37.2 16.27 < 0.001 0.85
    Vigorous 13.1 (11.7) 4.4−18.4 4.91 0.002 0.67
    MVPA (walk + vigorous) 37.9 (18.5) 24.0−53.2 11.95 < 0.001 0.82
Lesson context (%)
    Management 26.1 (12.9) 19.4−35.1 6.24 < 0.001 0.71
    Knowledge 10.6 (14.0) 1.4−14.6 5.77 0.001 0.70
    Fitness activity 19.7 (24.7) 8.8−27.5 2.45 0.057 0.54
    Skill drills 12.1 (21.1) 7.2−18.8 1.25 0.309 0.42
    Game play 27.3 (29.0) 21.3−38.2 0.88 0.509 0.36
    Free play 4.4 (16.9) 0.0−11.8 0.74 0.601 0.33
Teacher interaction (%)
    In-class 2.3 (4.4) 0.1−4.6 5.26 0.001 0.68
    Out-of-class 0.7 (8.0) 0.0−3.9 2.03 0.103 0.50
    None 97.1 (9.2) 94.1−99.9 2.96 0.027 0.57

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