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50 Years of ERIC
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Slingerland, Menno; Haerens, Leen; Cardon, Greet; Borghouts, Lars – European Physical Education Review, 2014
Creating environments in physical education (PE) that foster perceived competence and physical activity during gender-mixed game play lessons is a challenge, especially with adolescent girls. This study is a small experiment in one PE lesson that aimed to increase the perceived competence and in-class physical activity in girls, by applying a…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Adolescents, Coeducation
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Perlman, Dana – European Physical Education Review, 2012
The Sport Education Model (SEM) was designed by Siedentop to provide students with a holistic sport-based experience. As research on the SEM continues, an aspect that has gained interest is the influence on (a) students with low levels of motivation and (b) opportunities to engage in health-enhancing levels of physical activity. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Physical Education, Physical Activities, Student Motivation
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Smither, Katelyn; Xihe Zhu, – European Physical Education Review, 2011
This study examined high school students' experiences in a Sport Education unit being implemented with smaller teams and fewer roles. The participants included one physical education teacher and her 70 ninth-grade students. Each week, we conducted two to three observations and four to six informal interviews with the participants for over eight…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Team Sports, Problem Solving, Interviews
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Roberts, Simon; Fairclough, Stuart – European Physical Education Review, 2011
This purpose of this study was to examine student activity, lesson contexts and teacher interactions during secondary school physical education, using a recently validated systematic observation instrument termed the System for Observing the Teaching of Games in Physical Education (SOTG-PE). Thirty, single-gender high school (11-16 years) physical…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Observation, Teacher Role, Interaction
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Jaakkola, Timo; Liukkonen, Jarmo; Laakso, Timo; Ommundsen, Yngvar – European Physical Education Review, 2008
The aim of the study was to investigate the relationships between situational and contextual self-determined motivation and physical activity intensity as measured by heart rates during a ninth-grade students' physical education (PE) class. The participants of the study were 139 Finnish ninth-grade students (15-year-olds). The data were collected…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Physical Education, Physical Activities, Motivation
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Sinelnikov, Oleg; Hastie, Peter – European Physical Education Review, 2008
Given Russian students' general lack of group work and opportunities to develop student responsibility in their prior schooling experiences, the purpose of this study was to examine how a group of Russian high school students responds to novel demands of participation in a sport education season. Forty-two students from two ninth-grade physical…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Social Systems, Student Journals, Student Responsibility