Suminski Richard R, Blair Rachel I, Lessard Laura, Peterson Michael, Killingsworth Richard
Center for Innovative Health Research, Department of Behavioral Health and Nutrition, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.
SAGE Open Med. 2019 Feb 17;7:2050312119831515. doi: 10.1177/2050312119831515. eCollection 2019.
FitnessGram is commonly used to measure physical fitness and improve physical activity and health in youth. However, little is known about its use for informing physical activity and health promotion policy within schools and school districts, especially from the perspective of key decision-makers like principals. Therefore, this study examined physical education teachers' and principals' perceptions of FitnessGram use and its relationship with school and district efforts to promote physical activity.
Principal and physical education teacher surveys were developed, converted to an online format, and then emailed along with a project description and instructions to all Delaware public and charter school physical education teachers (N = 183) and principals (N = 193) with a valid email.
Completed surveys were received from 35.5% of the teachers and 21.2% of the principals. All teachers and 95.1% of the principals reported their school used FitnessGram the past academic year. FitnessGram was significantly more likely to be used if FitnessGram results better aligned with school/district policies (r = 0.39) and were considered important in the school's decision-making process (r = 0.53). Significantly more principals than teachers said that FitnessGram results were important in their school's decision-making process and that FitnessGram results were used to inform policy-/decision-making.
Use of FitnessGram was correlated with how well it related to school/district policy. Unfortunately, most of the physical education teachers and principals did not think FitnessGram was adequately integrated into the policy-/decision-making process.
体能测试量表（FitnessGram）常用于衡量青少年的身体素质，促进其体育活动和健康。然而，对于它在学校和学区体育活动及健康促进政策制定中的作用，尤其是从校长等关键决策者的角度，我们了解甚少。因此，本研究考察了体育教师和校长对体能测试量表使用的看法，以及它与学校和学区促进体育活动努力之间的关系。
设计了校长和体育教师调查问卷，并转换为在线形式，然后连同项目描述和说明一起通过电子邮件发送给特拉华州所有公立和特许学校的体育教师（N = 183）和校长（N = 193），要求他们提供有效的电子邮件地址。
35.5%的教师和21.2%的校长完成了调查问卷。所有教师和95.1%的校长表示，他们的学校在过去一学年使用了体能测试量表。如果体能测试量表的结果与学校/学区政策更相符（r = 0.39），并且在学校决策过程中被认为很重要（r = 0.53），那么使用体能测试量表的可能性就显著更高。表示体能测试量表结果在学校决策过程中很重要，以及体能测试量表结果被用于政策/决策制定的校长明显多于教师。
体能测试量表的使用与它和学校/学区政策的相关程度有关。不幸的是，大多数体育教师和校长认为体能测试量表没有充分融入政策/决策过程。
