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Albedry, Brandon; Ammons, Lillie; Marenus, Michele W.; Hammoud, Dianna; Jandali, Danny; Chrzanowski, Mark; Chen, Weiyun – American Journal of Health Education, 2023
Background: Research on the effects of adventure education lessons on social emotional skills (SEL), psychological outcomes, and physical activity (PA) is limited. Purpose: This study assessed the effectiveness of adventure education lessons in improving high school students' SEL competencies, resilience, and PA. Methods: 95 10th grade students…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Social Emotional Learning, Resilience (Psychology), Physical Activity Level
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Farias, Cláudio; Wallhead, Tristan; Mesquita, Isabel – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2020
Purpose: This longitudinal study provided a retrospective examination of the impact of student participation in a year-long Sport Education curricular experience on physical literacy development. A focus was placed on students' reported motivation, attitudes and disposition to participate in physical education (PE) and sport, and their…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Athletics, Student Motivation, Student Attitudes
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Nation-Grainger, Stephen – Research Papers in Education, 2017
Motivating adolescents to participate in exercise and physical activity is becoming increasingly important due to a rise in obesity but can be prevented through Physical Education. A quasi-experimental design, grounded in the Self-determination theory, was utilised to assess the impact of an intervention using wrist-worn digital physical activity…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Motivation, Exercise, Physical Education
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Wallhead, Tristan L.; Garn, Alex C.; Vidoni, Carla – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2013
Background: Adolescents' decisions to engage in physical activities are influenced by the social aspects of the activity, including opportunity for affiliation, being part of a team, and the social status it offers. A curriculum and instructional model that has been shown to embed the student social system within a positive program of action is…
Descriptors: Athletics, Physical Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Social Development
Mobilia-Jones, Karen – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examines the overall results of the Physical Fitness Test (PFT) and the six fitness areas of the PFT, academic achievement, demographics and self perceptions and the potential impact on students' performance on the PFT. While academic expectations are increasing, the adolescent obesity rate is also increasing, producing a decline in the…
Descriptors: Report Cards, Physical Education, Obesity, International Schools
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Tsvetkova, I. V. – Russian Education and Society, 2006
This article is based on materials from a questionnaire survey of tenth-graders in the city of Toliatti [Togliatti], conducted by the monitoring division of the Resource Center of the Department of Education. A total of 958 adolescents in eighteen schools took part in the survey in March and April 2005. Nine schools served as "base"…
Descriptors: Special Programs, Adolescents, Physical Education, Values