Texas Youth Fitness Study: A Commentary

摘要

The Texas Youth Evaluation Project (TYEP) is remarkable in several ways. First, such high-level compliance with unfunded mandates is rare. In this case TYEP, as outlined in Texas Senate Bill 530 (SB 530), received Dollars 2M in funding from a wide variety of private sources (Cooper, Meredith, Kloster, Rathbone, & Read, 2010). More than 20,000 teachers in 9,000 schools, with 84.8% of Texas districts represented, were trained to administer the FITNESSGRAM~R health-related criterion-referenced test battery selected for the study. More than 2.5 million youth (grades 3-12) were tested. Results were analyzed and those data were used for the Texas Youth Fitness Study (TYFS) as reported in this supplement. The TYEP and related studies are additionally remarkable because of the task size and the short time line between passage of SB 530 and project implementation.