A ten-week in-class fitness circuit intervention significantly improved cardiovascular endurance among Malaysian secondary school girls¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q2 · i1 small
Currency · newest study 2011 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i1 Experimental girls showed significantly greater cardiovascular endurance than control girls after ten weeks, with a small effect size (Cohen d = 0.35). → Rengasamy et al. 2011

Evidence¶

Rengasamy et al. 2011¶

Shabeshan Rengasamy, Subramaniam Raju, Wee Akina Sia Seng Lee, Ramachandran Roa. (2011). A Fitness Intervention Program within a Physical Education Class on Cardiovascular Endurance among Malaysia Secondary School Students. The Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Science, 2(1). http://www.moj-es.net

q2 · i1 · causal · r2

Quasi-experimental pretest-posttest study with intact classes of Form Four girls (experimental n = 48, control n = 38); ANCOVA on posttest Cooper's Twelve Minute Run scores with pretest covariate found "a significant main effect" with "Cohen d = 0.35".

"As for the girls, there was also a significant main effect F (1,83) = 44.69 , p < .05; Cohen d = 0.35."

Discussion¶

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