Gao co-authors article on supplementing traditional physical education classes with exergaming

In a recent article, co-authored by Zan Gao, Ph.D., director of the Physical Activity Epidemiology Laboratory and associate professor in the School of Kinesiology, and Sunyue Ye, Ph.D., describes a study showing that the combination of exergaming and a physical education program is more effective for the development of children’s motor skill competency, and health-related fitness, than traditional methods. The primary author, Dr. Ye, is an associate professor at Longyan University and was a visiting scholar in the School of Kinesiology during the Spring 2018 semester. The article “Impact of Exergaming on Children’s Motor Skill Competence and Health-Related Fitness: A Quasi-Experimental Study” was published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine.