Wowser! I climbed into the rabbit hole of academic journals and scholarly articles, and I’m hoping I'm maybe beginning to find my way out. I’ve stumbled upon a few different pieces of literature so far which seem to be along the same lines with what I plan on researching. So far nobody stands out as “seminal" so far, although one of the articles I found is cited 117 times (does that qualify as seminal?) -- “Feasibility and Effectiveness of Using Wearable Activity Trackers in Youth: A Systematic Review,” published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) in November 2016 (1). Much like what I plan to investigate, “the aim of this review was to examine the effectiveness of wearable activity trackers as a tool for increasing children’s and adolescents’ physical activity levels.” It was a bit of a relief to read the first sentence of this study’s conclusion: “There is a paucity of research concerning the effectiveness and feasibility of wearable activity trackers as a tool for increasing children’s and adolescents’ physical activity levels….” (I had to Google ‘paucity’ ... it means there is very little research done on this). Hoping that the work done by this study can aid me in my research and provide validity to my discoveries.
I found a few other articles that relate to my research as well, although they are not cited as much as the one above… “Using Novel Technology within a School-Based Setting to Increase Physical Activity: A Pilot Study in School-Age Children from a Low-Income, Urban Community” is cited 6 times and concludes that fitness trackers in combination with goal setting did not increase physical activity in 5th and 6th grade students, but “It is also possible that this intervention was not successful because a single step goal was set, used for all participants regardless of their baseline activity levels.... it is possible that the intervention would have been more successful if participants received individualized goals based on baseline activity levels, as was successfully done by Koufoudakis...” What do you know?! The conclusion of this study leads me to another -- Koufoudakis’s study: “How Feedback and Goal-Setting Impact Children’s Recess Physical Activity” (cited by 3). THE CYCLE CONTINUES!. This study could also help validate the methodology I plan on employing within my action research, in which students will set their own personal goals based on their individual levels of fitness and development, though I’m not sure if the article is impactful enough to use in my research, only having been cited 3 times… I’m a bit all over the place right now in terms of finding the right literature. But I’m feeling better than I did a couple hours ago. Hooray for progress.
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Susan Craig
10/7/2020 02:01:19 pm
Hi Dustin,
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Jason Chatham
10/8/2020 10:49:14 am
I hear you my man. Progress! I wonder what permissions you/I/ we need to get from Admin??
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10/8/2020 06:32:39 pm
That's awesome news about the 117 times cited! I would say that is a an excellent resource! And the rabbit hole is REAL.
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