Katherine Dabbs

CIED 1003

July 9, 2017

Google Scholar

Derick Mears, High School Physical Education and Physical Activity in Young Women,
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=b_sLKDYAAAAJ&cita
tion_for_view=b_sLKDYAAAAJ:d1gkVwhDpl0C, 2007

Derick Mears, The Effects of Physical Education Requirements on Physical Activity of Young
Adults,https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=b_sLKDYAAA
AJ&citation_for_view=b_sLKDYAAAAJ:u-x6o8ySG0sC , 2008

Derick Mears, The Influence of Technology in Pop Culture on Curriculum and Instruction,
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=b_sLKDYAAAAJ&cita
tion_for_view=b_sLKDYAAAAJ:qjMakFHDy7sC , 2012

Article Summary The Effects of Physical Education Requirements on Physical Activity of

Young Adults

In the article, The Effects of Physical Education Requirements on Physical Activity of Young
Adults, Derick Mears wanted to determine if the requirement of extra credit hours of high
school physical education had an impact on prompting young adults to be physically active. He
starts off by explaining that physical education is in a state of crisis in American secondary
schools. This is due to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act that has placed a heavy pressure to
increase good performance in areas such as literacy and mathematics, rather than physical
education. Mears found that physical education had decreased by 20% during the last twelve
years and only 8% of elementary and 6% of middle and high school had programs that met
recommendation for physical education time. To further investigate this issue, he began his
method with 361 undergraduate students from three different universities who were in
required general education courses. He then gave them all the secondary school physical
education experiences survey. The survey questions evaluated physical activity of the low and
high requirement students. After he obtained this information, low requirement and high
requirement groups were compared between the levels of physical activity in three areas;
cardio respiratory endurance, muscular strength endurance, and individual/ream activity
participation. Finally, his results showed that students who participated in more physical
activity credits were more likely to continue being physically active as young adults.
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