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Lodewyk, Ken R. – Physical Educator, 2015
The academic advantages of knowledge are often compromised when learners and teachers hold counterproductive epistemic beliefs, that is, personal convictions about the nature of knowledge and knowing. This study was an investigation of associations between prospective physical educators' game-specific epistemic beliefs (worldviews and beliefs in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Physical Education Teachers, Educational Practices
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Ken Lodewyk – Physical Educator, 2009
While the critical role of knowledge in physical education performance is well-documented, there is little research into the role that students' beliefs about what knowing is and how they come to know relate to their achievement in physical education. The purpose of this study was to discover relations between beliefs about epistemology, ability…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Factor Analysis, Gender Differences, Epistemology