Task 3: Getting kids to exercise (Hill, Abraham, & Wright, 2007): The purpose of this research was to examine whether providing children with a leaflet based on the ‘theory of planned behaviour’ increases children’s exercise. There were four different interventions (Intervention): a control group, a leaflet, a leaflet and quiz, and a leaflet and plan. A total of 503 children from 22 different classrooms were sampled (Classroom).

It was not practical to have children in the same classrooms in different conditions, therefore the 22 classrooms were randomly assigned to the four different conditions. Children were asked ‘On average over the last three weeks, I have exercised energetically for at least 30 minutes ______ times per week’ after the intervention (Post_Exercise). Run a multilevel model analysis on these data (Hill et al. (2007).dat) to see whether the intervention affected the children’s exercise levels (the hierarchy in the data is: children within classrooms within interventions).