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Direct linkAngela Lumpkin – Physical Educator, 2009
This descriptive study examined whether the coverage of African Americans in the feature articles in Sports Illustrated during the 1990s was representative of their participation levels. Nearly half of the articles featured European Americans; about one-third featured African Americans. More African Americans were featured in basketball, boxing,…
Descriptors: African Americans, Track and Field, Team Sports, African American Achievement
Hardin, Robin; Andrew, Damon P. S.; Koo, Gi-Yong; Bemiller, Jim – Physical Educator, 2009
Enrollment trends in Basic Instruction Programs (BIPs) have shown a gradual decrease during the past four decades. This trend is significant because of the numerous studies that have declared Americans as unfit, inactive and leading unhealthy lifestyles. College and university BIPs are a means in which adults can be introduced to healthy…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Enrollment Trends, Motivation, Performance Factors
Constantinou, Phoebe; Manson, Mara; Silverman, Stephen – Physical Educator, 2009
Why girls' participation in physical education (PE) dramatically changes once girls reach middle school has been of interest to many researchers. Studying how middle school girls perceive things at this age helps ensure a greater understanding of how to better meet girls' needs. The purpose of this study was to determine how middle school girls…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Attitudes, Females, Middle School Students
Blankenship, Bonnie Tjeerdsma; Colem, Margaret M. – Physical Educator, 2009
The purposes of this study were to: (1) determine the extent of wash-out in two beginning physical education teachers; and (2) determine the workplace conditions these novice teachers experienced that may have influenced the extent of wash-out for them. The interactive factors influencing workplace conditions for physical education teachers…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Teaching Conditions, Performance Factors
Barney, David; Deutsch, Joe – Physical Educator, 2009
Physical educators have long proclaimed that physical education class is an important academic discipline to a students' education. With learning objectives taking place in the affective, cognitive and psychomotor domains. Yet, physical education has been marginalized in today's society. One way to gain support of physical education is getting…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers
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
Cherubini, Jeffrey M.; Bentley, Tiffany C. – Physical Educator, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine eighth-graders playing high school varsity sports from the perspective of the high school coach. The qualitative inquiry was used to allow for personal insights into this coaching phenomenon, to share coaching experiences, and to provide a guide for future coaching action. Participants included 11 high…
Descriptors: High Schools, Qualitative Research, Athletic Coaches, Athletes
Clocksin, Brian D.; Wattson, Doris L.; Williams, Daniel P.; Randsell, Lynda – Physical Educator, 2009
The purpose of this project was to compare an integrated health and physical education curriculum, focused on reducing media use and on increasing physical activity in middle school adolescents, to traditional and nonintegrated health and physical education curricula. Two middle schools' health and physical education classes were assigned to an…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Middle School Students, Intervention, Health Education
Lodewyk, Ken; Lu, Chunlei; Kentel, Jeanne – Physical Educator, 2009
Spirituality is a fundamental, everyday life process involving a joy of living, sacrifice and love for others, and a connection to self, others, nature, and to a larger meaning or purpose. Distinct from moral or religious beliefs, spirituality engages interactively with the psyche, body, and sociocultural setting to influence human functioning,…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Altruism, Religious Factors, Well Being
Murray, Steven R.; Udermann, Brian E.; Reineke, David M.; Battista, Rebecca A. – Physical Educator, 2009
Sport stacking is an activity taught in many physical education programs. The activity, although very popular, has been studied minimally, and the energy expenditure for sport stacking is unknown. Therefore, the purposes of this study were to determine the energy expenditure of sport stacking in elementary school children and to compare that value…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Expenditures, Physical Education, Physical Activities
Zeng, Howard Z.; Leung, Raymond; Liu, Wenhao; Hipscher, Michael – Physical Educator, 2009
This study examined the features and correlations between teaching behaviors and learning activities in urban high school physical education (PE) class settings using direct instruction model. Participants were sixteen urban high school PE teachers and their students. Results indicated that the teachers spent their class times on the major…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Physical Education, Physical Activities, Learning Activities
Cherubini, Jeffrey M. – Physical Educator, 2009
Framed in the context of researching influences on physical activity and actually working with individuals and groups seeking to initiate, increase or maintain physical activity, the purpose of this review is to present the model of Intentional Development as a multi-theoretical approach to guide research and applied work in physical activity.…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Models, Health Behavior
Smith, Mark A.; St. Pierre, Peter E. – Physical Educator, 2009
The purpose of the study was to identify American and English secondary students' determinants of enjoyment in physical education using Scanlan and Lewthwaite's (1986) Sport Enjoyment Model as a theoretical and conceptual framework. Open-ended semi-structured interviews, lasting between 30 and 75 minutes were conducted. Using open and axial…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Class Activities, Student Attitudes, Interviews
An Examination of Kinesiology GTAs' Perceptions of an Instructional Development and Evaluation Model
Russell, Jared A. – Physical Educator, 2008
Kinesiology graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) provide an invaluable role in carrying out the instructional mission of many universities and colleges. However, the last two decades have seen an increase in public criticism and concern concerning the manner in which GTAs are employed to teach higher education courses, the extent they are prepared…
Descriptors: Instructional Development, Socialization, Education Courses, Criticism
King, Susan E. – Physical Educator, 2008
The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of peer-generated feedback versus visual feedback in inspiring preservice physical education teachers to produce reflections that are more critical than technical. The participants were junior-, senior-, and graduate-level health and physical education majors enrolled in an instructional…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Education Majors, Preservice Teachers, Physical Education
