BPK 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Measuring Instrument, Observational Error, Percentile
11 Oct 2018
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Muscular endurance: objectives of physical fitness testing, to assess the status of individuals entering a program. Subjects are screened for health prior to engaging in fitness assessments. Primary safety goal of health screening is to identify those who should receive further medical evaluation prior to exercise testing or training. Informed consent form - voluntary acknowledgement of purpose, procedures, and assumption of known (informed) dangers/risk(s) Physical screening of body composition and resting heart rate and blood pressure. May also find out more about individuals risk factors for chronic disease: characteristics of a good physical fitness test. Measurement error makes the observed value of a measure differ from the true value: validity - a valid test is one that measures effectively what it is supposed to measure. A highly reliable test yields the same or approximately the same scores when administered twice to the same individuals, provided conditions and subjects are essentially the same.
