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Shane Pill; Michael Davies; John Evans – Sport, Education and Society, 2024
The Australian Curriculum requires teachers of all learning areas to include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Culture and History where there is opportunity to do so meaningfully. Despite this requirement, there are few studies considering culturally responsive pedagogy for those perspectives in the teaching of Physical Education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Culturally Relevant Education, Grade 7
Korp, Peter; Quennerstedt, Mikael; Barker, Dean; Johansson, Anna – Health Education, 2023
Purpose: Over the last couple of decades, health has become a central part of the subject content in physical education (PE) curricula in many countries. As a result, issues of health have been foregrounded much more clearly in the teaching of PE. The aim of this study was to explore how Swedish PE teachers make sense of health in relation to…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
Van der Westhuizen, Stephan J.; du Toit, Dorita; van der Merwe, Niekie – South African Journal of Education, 2023
Although physical education (PE) provides a school-based platform for the enhancement of learners' physical health, implementation challenges can have a detrimental effect on learners' motivation to participate in physical activities and their fitness levels. Within the framework of the Self-determination Theory (SDT), meeting learners' basic…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teaching Methods, Physical Education
Zhu, Qiao; Shen, Hejun; Chen, Ang – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2021
Purpose: Based on the theorized concept "Curriculum Safety Zone (CSZ)," this study was conducted to identify the factors for breaking CSZ by contrasting the experiential accounts of two pre-service teacher groups who taught within or outside of their CSZ. Method: Pre-service teachers (n = 14) from a sport-centered PETE program were…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Preservice Teachers, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
Paulson, Anna; Kulinna, Pamela Hodges; van der Mars, Hans – Physical Educator, 2022
This study sought to address the large gap in the literature regarding parents' roles and views about physical education programs. Guided by Epstein's model of parental involvement, this study investigated the effect of increased parental involvement in a child's physical education program on parents' perceptions of that program. Participants…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent Role, Parent Attitudes, Physical Education
Sperka, Leigh; Enright, Eimear – Sport, Education and Society, 2019
The enactment of neoliberal ideologies in education, in particular the extension of free-market logics, has the potential to reposition students and affect if and how their voices are elicited and responded to. There is, however, a dearth of research that seeks to understand how students are experiencing neoliberal influences on their education.…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Health Education
Simonton, Kelly L.; Mercier, Kevin; Garn, Alex C. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2019
Background: The use of fitness tests in physical education (PE) receives extensive scrutiny and represents one of the most fiercely debated topics in PE research. Fitness test proponents often provide unwavering support citing their positive long-term benefits while critics underscore the corrosive long-term pitfalls associated with their use in…
Descriptors: Tests, Student Attitudes, Psychological Patterns, Physical Education
Guadalupe, Tasha; Curtner-Smith, Matthew D. – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2019
A limited amount of research indicates that when teachers purposefully invite students to negotiate the physical education curriculum, students have a more equitable experience. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of purposefully negotiating the curriculum on one boys' physical education class. A second purpose was to…
Descriptors: Males, Middle School Students, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers
Bugdayci, Selçuk – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2019
This study is a descriptive research study, which was conducted to determine personal and social responsibility levels of secondary school students. The research group is comprised of 602 (285 females, 317 males) students who are studying at the state schools under the Directorate of National Education in Konya Province. In obtaining the research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Responsibility, Social Responsibility
Ding, Haiyong; Chen, Ang – European Physical Education Review, 2019
There are substantial differences between the Chinese and US education systems. One difference is in the design and use of assessment due to differences in educational policies. This study described the differences in student learning outcomes, instructional approaches, and learner motivation in physical education as consequences of the policies…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers
Haerens, Leen; Krijgsman, Christa; Mouratidis, Athanasios; Borghouts, Lars; Cardon, Greet; Aelterman, Nathalie – European Physical Education Review, 2019
Students' knowledge about the criteria for an upcoming test is a crucial component of assessment quality. Grounded in self-determination theory, we investigated whether knowledge about the criteria for an upcoming test related to students' situational motivation and experienced anxiety during physical education (PE). We also examined whether these…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Stress Variables, Test Anxiety, Student Motivation
Yasin Karaca; Bijen Filiz – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2024
In this study, a valid and reliable scale was developed to measure parents' perceptions of their children's social development in physical education classes. In the first part of the research, the relevant literature reviewed and student-parent interviews were held. As a result of the data obtained from the interviews, a 30-item draft scale was…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Grade 5, Grade 6
Wang, Yubing; Zhang, Tan; Chen, Ang – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the 3-year trajectory of students' interest in learning physical activity (PA) knowledge during middle school and the effects of gender and prior knowledge on the trajectory. Methods: Using a repeated-measures design, a cohort of 447 sixth-grade students' interest in learning PA knowledge was…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Gender Differences, Prior Learning, Middle School Students
Tan Zhang – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2024
Derived from the Expectancy-Value Theory (EVT) model, cost has drawn scholarly interest for being predicative of avoidance motivation. The study is an effort to develop and validate an instrument to measure students' perceived costs in physical education. Through literature review and student interviews, a draft of 39 items under seven domains was…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Test Validity, Test Construction, Student Motivation
Randolph Christopher Helms – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The present study explored the effect of instructing middle school students in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades in positive psychology lessons, as compared to control classes that did not receive this positive psychology instruction. This study used quantitative procedures to determine the implementation of this curriculum on lowering student…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8