Table 3.

Agreement to statements about the course by research fellows reported on the web survey (class of 1995–2011; n=322)

The Physical Activity and Public Health Course…	Agree		Disagree		Not Applicable or Missing*
	N	%	N	%	N
…met my expectations.	315	98.7	4	1.3	3
…had a positive impact on the physical activity research or practice work that I do.	306	97.8	7	2.2	9
…helped me develop my research question for physical activity research.	297	96.1	12	3.9	13
…helped me increase my professional networking in the field.	293	92.7	23	7.3	6
…helped me in preparing higher quality grant proposals in physical activity research.	256	91.4	24	8.6	42
…helped me with research or practice collaborations with other physical activity professionals.	284	91.3	27	8.7	11
…helped me conduct higher quality physical activity related interventions and/or programs.	244	89.7	28	10.3	50
…helped me in preparing higher quality manuscripts in physical activity research.	261	85.6	44	14.4	17
…helped me conduct higher quality evaluations of physical activity related interventions and/or programs.	236	85.2	41	14.8	45
…had a positive impact on other work that I do, outside of physical activity research or practice.	244	80.8	58	19.2	20
…helped me prepare physical activity-related reports or dissemination materials.	212	80.6	51	19.4	59
…helped me identify funding resources for physical activity research and interventions.	216	74.0	76	26.0	30
…helped increase my leadership role in the physical activity profession, such as by serving on advisory boards, professional organization committees, manuscript reviewer, or consultations.	200	67.3	97	32.7	25
…helped me integrate a focus on health disparities into my work.	164	58.2	118	41.8	40

Note: The response options were “strongly agree” and “agree” (collapsed into “agree”), “strongly disagree” and “disagree” (collapsed into “disagree”), and “not applicable”.

^*Three fellows did not answer this section of the survey.