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Rodríguez-Negro, Josune; Pesola, J. Arto; Yanci, Javier – Journal of Educational Research, 2020
The aim of this study was to carry out three intervention programs [i.e. balance intervention program (BIP), game based program (GBP) and drama learning program (DLP)] and to assess their effects on school-age children's cognitive (creativity, attention and impulse control) and motor (balance, aiming and catching) development. These functions were…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Cognitive Development, Motor Development, Creativity
Polenghi, Simonetta, Ed.; Németh, András, Ed.; Kasper, Tomáš, Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2021
The public dimension of the body became paramount in the first half of the 20th century, when the image of the modern man, with his virile stereotypes, became a cliché, in strict connection with nation building first and totalitarian ideologies later. Yet, different cultural and educational trends advocated for life reform and liberation of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Human Body, Physical Education
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Hortigüela Alcalá, David; Palacios Picos, Andrés; López Pastor, Víctor – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2019
The use of formative and shared or co-assessment has been shown to improve the motivation, involvement and learning of university students. The aim of this study is to analyse the effect that implementing these processes has on university students' perception of their acquisition of transversal competences. The participants in the study were 1021…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Formative Evaluation, Foreign Countries, College Students
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Marín-Marín, José-Antonio; Costa, Rebeca Soler; Moreno-Guerrero, Antonio-José; López-Belmonte, Jesús – Education Sciences, 2020
Information and communication technologies (ICT) are immersed in the teaching and learning processes. Specifically, educational robotics is a technology with great projection in learning spaces. This educational technology has revealed great potential in educational processes in the scientific literature. In this study, the Makey Makey device has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Robotics, Physical Education, Technology Uses in Education
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Grao-Cruces, Alberto; Segura-Jiménez, Victor; Conde-Caveda, Julio; García-Cervantes, Laura; Martínez-Gómez, David; Keating, Xiaofen D.; Castro-Piñero, José – Journal of School Health, 2019
Background: The aims were to: (1) examine the levels of physical activity (PA) during different time periods (ie, daily PA, school hour PA, recess PA, physical education classes [PEC] PA) in children and adolescents; and (2) identify the rate of compliance with the specific PA recommendations for these time periods. Methods: The participants were…
Descriptors: School Role, Children, Adolescents, School Schedules
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Rodríguez-Negro, Josune; Falese, Lavinia; Yanci, Javier – Journal of Educational Research, 2019
This study examines the effects of two different 8-week balance intervention programs for students of primary school age. Static and dynamic balance were assessed in 380 students (6-12 years) before and after an 8-week balance intervention program. Students were divided and assigned into a no intervention control group, a direct instructional…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Children, Psychomotor Skills, Intervention
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González-Calvo, Gustavo; Varea, Valeria; Martínez-Álvarez, Lucio – Sport, Education and Society, 2019
The importance of the Physical Education (PE) teacher's body, particularly for teaching PE, has been highlighted in literature. PE teachers are expected to be clear role models to students through their acts, behaviours and bodies. However, their strong embodied subjectivities, particularly those related to their teaching practices, may be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Human Body, Preservice Teachers
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Cuellar-Moreno, Maria; Caballero-Juliá, Daniel – Research in Dance Education, 2019
The spectrum of Teaching Styles (TS) provides a solid theoretical foundation for teaching Physical Education. It is common for teachers to use directive styles that do not meet program requirements. This is further accentuated in the case of dance, to the detriment of the development of emotional and cognitive factors. This study investigates the…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Teaching Methods, Physical Education, Dance Education
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Rodríguez-Negro, Josune; Yanci, Javier – Educational Psychology, 2020
The aim of this study was to examine the effects of two different instructional models (i.e. direct instructional model (DIM) and tactical games model (TGM)) with primary education students. Perceived exertion, affective valence, physical activity (PA) level, instruction time, active learning time, and relation of instruction/active learning time…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Physical Education, Games, Physical Activity Level
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Gil-Arias, Alexander; Claver, Fernando; Práxedes, Alba; Villar, Fernando Del; Harvey, Stephen – European Physical Education Review, 2020
The purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of a hybrid teaching games for understanding (TGfU) and sport education (SE) physical education unit on autonomy support, perceived motivational climate, enjoyment and perceived competence, in comparison to a unit delivered via a traditional direct instruction model. A crossover design was…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Teaching Methods, Games, Athletics
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Chiva-Bartoll, Oscar; Ruiz-Montero, Pedro Jesús; Olivencia, Juan José Leiva; Grönlund, Henrietta – European Physical Education Review, 2021
Recent studies, supported by the European project "Europe Engage -- Developing a Culture of Civic Engagement through Service-Learning within Higher Education in Europe," suggest that service-learning (SL) is an effective approach to develop personal and social learning linked to real contexts. This particular case study analyses the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Program Effectiveness, Physical Education, Preservice Teacher Education
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López-Serrano, Sebastián; Ruiz-Ariza, Alberto; De La Torre-Cruz, Manuel; Martínez-López, Emilio J. – South African Journal of Education, 2021
Recent studies and reviews have shown the positive effects of exergames (EXs) on physical activity (PA) and fitness in children and adolescents. Nevertheless, their effects on cognition have been scarcely explored, and no previous review has focussed on this relationship. The purpose of the research reported on here was to analyse the acute and…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Game Based Learning, Video Games
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Lahuerta-Contell, Sara; Molina-García, Javier; Queralt, Ana; Bernabé-Villodre, María del Mar; Martínez-Bello, Vladimir E – European Physical Education Review, 2021
From an ecological perspective that understands health behaviours to be the result of interactions between personal, psychosocial and environmental factors, different authors have described patterns and correlations between physical activity (PA) and sedentary behaviours (SB) in physical education (PE). However, to our knowledge there have been no…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Activity Level, Life Style, Physical Education
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Chacón-Cuberos, Ramón; Zurita-Ortega, Félix; Ubago-Jiménez, José Luis; González-Valero, Gabriel; Castro-Sánchez, Manuel – SAGE Open, 2019
This research study aims at contrasting a structural model of the associations between the alcohol consumption, tobacco dependence, and the problematic use of video games with motivational climate toward sport depending on the category of sports practiced in a sample of Physical Education university students. The sample consisted of 775 university…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, College Students, Drinking, Smoking
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Rocamora, Irene; González-Víllora, Sixto; Fernández-Río, Javier; Arias-Palencia, Natalia María – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2019
Background: Advances in technology have changed children's lifestyle so much that the majority of them do not meet the recommended 60 min of moderate to vigorous physical activity every day. Compulsory Physical Education has been highlighted as an ideal context to achieve the suggested physical activity (PA) goals, since it could be the only place…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Physical Activities, Games, Performance
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