Xiaofen D. Keating

TL;DR: Primary problems with the current research on college students' physical activity (PA) behaviors are that there is a lack of multiple-level approaches for examining PA behaviors in the college student population, and measures of PA are subjective and inconsistent, which makes comparisons of PA patterns among different samples very difficult or impossible.

TL;DR: Both underweight and normalweight children and adolescents had significantly higher performance than their overweight and obese counterparts in the lower-body explosive strength tests and in the push ups test in boys and bent arm hang test in both boys and girls.

TL;DR: It is maintained that fitness testing should be implemented as an integral part of fitness instruction and student learning and the expectation should be that all children have the potential to meet basic health-related fitness standards.

TL;DR: It was found that GPAQ was primarily revalidated in adult populations in Asian and European countries and the concurrent validity using accelerometers, pedometers, and physical activity (PA) log was poor to fair.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine current nationwide youth fitness test programs, address problems embedded in the programs, and possible solutions, and examine the efficacy of fitness test batteries in promoting student health-related fitness, increase the accountability of youth fitness testing, and add a written test on student fitness knowledge to the fitness test program.