OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Teaching in Physical Education is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Physical Education Teachers’ Experiences With Remote Instruction During the Initial Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic	56
Physical Education in the COVID Era: Considerations for Online Program Delivery Using the Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program Framework	53
The Success and Struggles of Physical Education Teachers While Teaching Online During the COVID-19 Pandemic	40
Affective Learning in Physical Education: A Systematic Review	31
A Study of Preservice Physical Education Teachers’ Content Knowledge of Health-Related Fitness	22
Middle School Students’ Perceptions of Physical Education: A Qualitative Look	19
Core Practices for Teaching Physical Education: Recommendations for Teacher Education	18
Factors Associated With High School Physical Education Teachers’ Adoption of a Supplemental Online Instructional System (iPE)	16
Chapter 2: Reversing Policy Neglect in U.S. Physical Education: A Policy-Focused Primer	15
Toward a More Comprehensive Picture of Physical Education Teaching Quality: Combining Generic and Content-Specific Practices	15
Preservice Physical Education Teachers’ Perceived Physical Literacy and Teaching Efficacy	15
A Primer on Content Knowledge in Physical Education Research	13
Watching Exercise and Fitness Videos on TikTok for Physical Education: Motivation, Engagement, and Message Sensation Value	12
Preservice Physical Education Teacher’s Development of Adaptive Competence	12
“You’re Not Going to Get It Right Every Time”: Teachers’ Perspectives on Giving Voice to Students in Physical Education	12
Psychological and Behavioral Correlates of Early Adolescents’ Physical Literacy	11
Physical Education Teachers and Competing Obesity Discourses: An Examination of Emerging Professional Identities	11
“It’s a Lot Less Hassle and a Lot More Fun”: Factors That Sustain Teachers’ Enthusiasm for and Ability to Deliver Sport Education	11
Examining the Contribution of a Professional Development Program to Elementary Classroom Teachers’ Content Knowledge and Student Achievement: The Case of Basketball	10
Chapter 3: PK–12 School Physical Education: Conditions, Lessons Learned, and Future Directions	10
Developing Preservice Teachers’ Adaptive Competence Using Repeated Rehearsals, Opportunities to Reflect, and Lesson Plan Modifications	10
Chapter 8: Collective Action for Learning, Improvement, and Redesign	10
Technology-Enhanced Learning Physical Education? A Critical Review of the Literature	9
Physical Education Teachers’ Use of Digital Game Design Principles	9
Predicting Changes in Physical Education Teachers’ Behaviors Promoting Physical Activity During the COVID-19 Pandemic Using an Integrated Motivational Model	9

Community of Practice: Preparing Preservice Teachers to Lead Movement Integration in a School–University Partnered Program	9
Student Voice in Primary Physical Education: A 30-Year Scoping Review of Literature	9
Influence of Internal and External Controlling Teaching Behaviors on Students’ Motivational Outcomes in Physical Education: Is There a Gender Difference?	9
Work Pressures Stemming From School Authorities and Burnout Among Physical Education Teachers: The Mediating Role of Psychological Needs Thwarting	9
#HealthyKidsQuarantined: Supporting Schools and Families With Virtual Physical Activity, Physical Education, and Nutrition Education During the Coronavirus Pandemic	9
Preservice Physical Education Teachers’ Perceptions of a Flipped Basketball Course: Benefits, Challenges, and Recommendations	9
Facilitation as an Act of Love: A Self-Study of How a Facilitator’s Pedagogy Changed Over Time in the Process of Supporting a Community of Learners	9
Examining Common and Specialized Soccer Content Knowledge and Demographic Variables of Chinese Physical Education Teachers	9
Chapter 1: 21st Century Physical Education in the United States: Introduction to the Special Issue	8
Achievement Emotions, Intention to Be Physically Active, and Academic Achievement in Physical Education: Gender Differences	8
The Influence of Socialization Factors on Physical Educators’ Conceptions of Assessment and Perceived Quality of Assessment	8
The Role of an Empowering Motivational Climate on Pupils’ Concentration and Distraction in Physical Education	8
The Role of Emotional Intelligence and Resilience in Physical Education Teacher Education Faculty Perceived Mattering	7
Exploring Game Performance and Game Involvement: Effects of a Sport Education Season and a Combined Sport Education—Teaching Games for Understanding Unit	7
What Kind of Interpersonal Need-Supportive or Need-Thwarting Teaching Style Is More Associated With Positive Consequences in Physical Education?	7
School-Based High-Intensity Interval Training Programs for Promoting Physical Activity and Fitness in Adolescents: A Systematic Review	7
Comparing Canadian Generalist and Specialist Elementary School Teachers’ Self-Efficacy and Barriers Related to Physical Education Instruction	7
Changes in the Content Development and Adaptive Competence of Teachers Following a Specialized Content Knowledge Workshop	7
Predictive Strength of Physical Education-Centered Physical Literacy Indicators on Physical Activity	7
One Physical Educator’s Struggle to Implement Restorative Practices in an Urban Intensive Environment	7
Examining Marginality, Isolation, and Emotions and Their Relationship With Physical Educator Intrapersonal Job Beliefs	7
“Getting the Tip of the Pen on the Paper”: How the Spectrum of Teaching Styles Narrows the Gap Between the Hope and the Happening	6
The Ableist Underpinning of Normative Motor Assessments in Adapted Physical Education	6
Generalization of Participation in Fitness Activities From Physical Education to Lunch Recess by Gender and Skill Level	6
Teacher Beliefs and Changes in Practice Through Professional Development	6
Generalization From Physical Education to Recess During an Elementary Sport Education Season	6
A Systematic Review Investigating the Effects of Implementing Game-Based Approaches in School-Based Physical Education Among Primary School Children	6
A Systematic Review of Correlates of the Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity of Students in Elementary School Physical Education	6
Dancing Queer Tango: An Experience of Queer Pedagogy in PESTE	6
An Actor-Oriented Perspective on Implementing a Pedagogical Innovation in a Cycling Unit	5
Physical Education Teacher Experiences Through the Lens of a Pandemic: Putting a Spotlight on Teacher Beliefs, Practices, Emotional Fragility, and Well-Being	5
A Sustainable Service-Learning Program Embedded in PETE: Examining the Short-Term Influence on Preservice Teacher Outcomes	5
Peer-to-Peer Learning: The Impact of Order of Performance on Learning Fundamental Movement Skills Through Video Analysis With Middle School Children	5
Associations of Physical Activity Enjoyment and Physical Education Enjoyment With Segmented Daily Physical Activity in Children: Exploring Tenets of the Trans-Contextual Model of Motivation	5
Barriers to Implementation of Physical Activity in Danish Public Schools	5
Implementation and Effectiveness of a CSPAP-Informed, Online Secondary Methods Course With Virtual Field Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
The Effects of Play Practice Instruction on the Badminton Content Knowledge of a Cohort of Chinese Physical Education Majors	5
School–University Partnered Before-School Physical Activity Program: Experiences of Preservice Teachers, Program Facilitators, and Students	5
High-Intensity Interval Training-Based Fitness Education in Middle School Physical Education: A Limited-Efficacy Study	5
How the Lack of Content Validity in the Canadian Assessment of Physical Literacy Is Undermining Quality Physical Education	5
“Knock, Knock … Who’s There?” ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence-Powered Large Language Models: Reflections on Potential Impacts Within Health and Physical Education Teacher Education	5
U.S. Physical Education Teacher Education Faculty Members’ Workplace Perceptions Across Gender and Institution Type	5
Adapted Physical Educators’ Experiences With School Administration and Marginalization	5
Incorporating a Motion Analysis App in Middle School Badminton Unit	4
A Review of Fidelity of Implementation in Intervention Research Published in JTPE and RQES	4
The Role of the Type of Sport in the Effects of the Jigsaw Method on Students’ Motivation and Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity in Physical Education	4
State of a State: Results From the Wyoming Physical Education and Physical Activity Policy Survey	4
Examining Situational Interest in Physical Education: A New Inventory	4
Relationship Between Personal and Social Responsibility and the Roles Undertaken in Sport Education	4
Developing a Pedagogy of Restorative Physical Education	4

College Students’ Development of Badminton Skills and Tactical Competencies Following Play Practice	4
The Missing Link? Middle School Students’ Procedural Knowledge on Fitness	4
Physical Activity Leadership Development Through a Physical Education Teacher Education Service-Learning Course	4
What Occupational Socialization Factors Influence Preservice Teachers to Possess Fitness Orientations?	4
Chapter 7: Selective Integration: Roles for Public Health, Kinesiology, and Physical Education	4
“My Methods Courses Feel Like Walmart”: Influence of Secondary Organizational Socialization on Early Career Faculty Members’ Implementation of PETE	4
Reconceptualizing Teacher Identity: Teachers’ Becoming in the Dynamic Complexity of Teaching Situations	4
Practice-Based Teacher Education in Physical Education	4
“I Wish I Had Had You as a PE Teacher”: Physical Educators’ Experiences in a Professional Learning Community	4
A Comparison of Motivation and Physical Activity Levels Between a Sport Education Season and a Hybrid Sport Education and Cooperative Learning Season	4
Measuring Physical Education Teacher Socialization With Respect to Comprehensive School Physical Activity Programming	4
An Analysis of Chinese Preservice Physical Education Teachers’ Beliefs About the Physical Education Profession	4
Higher-Order Factors and Measurement Equivalence of the Spectrum of Teaching Styles’ Questionnaire Across Two Cultures	4
“Wow! They’re Teaching Each Other”: Primary Teachers’ Perspectives of Implementing Cooperative Learning to Accomplish Social and Emotional Learning in Aotearoa New Zealand Physical Education	4
Social Justice Research in Physical Education Teacher Education: Contextualized in the United States	4
High-Intensity Interval Training and Health Optimizing Physical Education: Achieving Health and Educative Outcomes in Secondary Physical Education—A Pilot Nonrandomized Comparison Trial	4
Senior Physical Education Teacher Education Majors’ Reflections on Teaching at a Youth Development Center	3
Examining the Culturally Responsive Teaching Self-Efficacy in Physical Education Teacher Education Alumni	3
Physical Education Access in U.S. Public Schools: A Multistate, Multiregion Study	3
Chapter 9: Pathways Toward Desirable Futures	3
Enhancing Fundamental Movement Skills: Understanding Student Voices	3
Understanding Physical Education Teachers’ Help-Seeking Behaviors in a Facebook Professional Learning Community	3
Debate of Ideas and Understanding With Regard to Tactical Learning in Team Sports	3
Do Physical Education Teachers Use Socioconstructivist Communication Patterns in Their Classes?	3
What Do They Reflect on?—A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Physical Education Preservice Teachers’ Written Reflections After a Long-Term Internship	3
Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Pedagogies for and by Black and Latinx Preservice Physical Education Teachers	3
Influence of Occupational Socialization on Sport Pedagogy Doctoral Students’ Beliefs and Actions	3
The Association Between Pupil-Related Psychological Factors and Academic Achievement in Physical Education	3
Transcultural Impact of Learning to Teach Sport Education on Preservice Teachers’ Perceived Teaching Competence, Autonomy, and Academic Motivation	3
Developing Principles of Practice for Implementing Models-Based Practice: A Self-Study of Physical Education Teacher Education Practice	3
Chapter 4: Physical Education Teacher Education Initial Certification: Meeting the Challenges	3
Content Acquisition Podcasts and Preservice Physical Educators’ Knowledge and Self-Efficacy Toward Teaching Students With Visual Impairments	3
#SayHerName: Black Women Physical Education Teachers of the Year	3
Caring Climate, Emotions, and Engagement in High School Physical Education	3
Special Series: Research on Teaching Physical Education in the Age of COVID-19	3
“They May Be a Level One Student, But I Love Them All”: Preservice Teachers Negotiating Inclusion and Diversity in Their Classes	3
Chapter 6: Perspectives on the Future of Doctoral Programs	3
Research and Practical Implications of Integrating Autobiographical Essays Into Physical Education Teacher Education	3
Impact of Embedding High-Intensity Interval Training in Schools and Sports Training on Children and Adolescent’s Cardiometabolic Health and Health-Related Fitness: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	3
Career Transitions: Decision-Making Dynamics Regarding Physical Education Teacher Education Doctoral Program Applications and Entry	3
Basic Psychological Needs, Motivation, Engagement, and Disaffection in Mexican Students During Physical Education Classes	3
Social–Ecological Considerations in Sustaining Comprehensive School Physical Activity Programs: A Follow-Up Study	3
Reclaiming the Conveyor Belt: Physical Education Teacher Education as a Pipeline to the Professoriate for Black Males	3
Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity in Physical Education: A Review of Reviews	3