Table 1

Process evaluation measures
Evaluation Components[11,12]
 Data Collection
Instruments
 Source
 Frequency of
Measurement
 Schools
Reach
 Training Attendance Record
 Teachers
 Annual workshop;
as needed when new faculty hired
 I
Dose Received
 Training Evaluation Survey
 Teachers
 Annual workshop;
as needed when new faculty hired
 I
Precision, Accuracy
 Anthropometric Reliability Testing
 Research
Assistants
 Quarterly
Fidelity, Dose received
 System for Observing Fitness Instruction Time (SOFIT)
 Students
 Weekly
 I, C
Fidelity
 Student Enjoyment
 Teachers
 End of school year
(teachers), weekly
(direct observation)
 I, C1
Fidelity, Dose, Dose received
 On-line Weekly Classroom Teacher Survey (Form 1)
 Teachers
 Weekly
 I
Fidelity, Implementation
 On-line Classroom Teacher Questionnaire (Form 2)
 Teachers
 End of school year
 I
Fidelity, Exposure
 On-line 9-item Classroom Teacher Questionnaire (Form 3)
 Teachers
 End of school year
 I
Reach
 Focus Group Attendance Log
 Teachers
 End of school year
 I
Context, Contamination
 5-item Competing Factors Survey
 Principals
 End of school year
 I, C

1 Enjoyment of students was rated weekly by research assistants in both intervention and control schools. In addition, enjoyment level of students was reported by intervention teachers only at the end of the school year. I = intervention schools; C = control schools

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