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Papers

(The median citation count of European Physical Education Review 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Formative assessment in physical education: teachers’ experiences when designing and implementing formative assessment activities	43
Beginning, rise, fall, and comeback: Exploring the journey of a physical education teacher community in South Korea	30
Universal design for learning in physical education: Overview and critical reflection	26
“We have limited time, so it's a zero-sum game”: Influence of secondary organizational socialization on the forms of physical education teacher education provided by European, Asian, and North America	25
Students’ perceptions of teaching styles use and motivation to participate in PE: A multigroup analysis of the mediating role of basic psychological needs	25
Information and communication technologies in physical education: Exploring the association between role modeling and digital literacy	20
Exploring social justice pedagogies in physical education in Austria: Teaching practices for diversity and equity	19
Trauma-informed practices and physical education: A scoping literature review	18
Holistic assessment in school physical education: ‘Seeing the whole picture with our trained eye’	18
Despite good intentions: The elusiveness of social justice in health and physical education curricula across different contexts	17
Seeking a balance between ideal teaching and ‘what works’ in a physical education teacher education service learning programme	17
The process(es) of learning about teaching using models-based practice: Pre-service teachers’ experiences	16
Co-designing a running/walking programme with adolescent girls using meaningful physical activity and an activist approach	16
More than advocates: Exploring the role of school adults in amplifying the physical education voices of pupils with a severe learning difficulty in a special school in England	16
The experiences of Latina and Latino blind and visually impaired students in physical education: A retrospective study	16
Classroom management and individual interest in physical education: A self-determination theory approach	16
Virtual reality in physical education: A systematic literature review	15
Grading in physical education: Exploring teachers’ experiences and reflections on the increase in top grades among upper secondary school students in Norway	15
Experiences of slow movement practices in upper secondary school physical education	15
Re-imagining performance spaces and locations in ecological dynamics: Implications for pedagogical practices in physical education	14
Fitting in or standing out? The organisational socialisation of early career physical education specialism graduates through a micropolitical lens	14
Examining the construct validity of the FMS ² assessment tool	13
The relationship between occupational socialization factors and in-service physical educators’ reported use of sport education	12
The association of perceived mattering and emotions with physical educator teacher resilience	12
Feeling the lesson: Affect, attunement and trauma-informed physical education	12

Working with trauma-affected young people in secondary schools: Exploring ‘self-care’ with pre-service physical education teachers	12
Understandings and enactments of social justice pedagogies in Swedish physical education and health practice	11
That's what I like! Fostering enjoyment in primary physical education	11
The role of teaching experience and year level in shaping pre-service PE teachers’ efficacy	10
The if , why and how of fitness testing in secondary school	10
Becoming activist teacher educators: The learning journeys of two physical education cooperating teachers in a school–university partnership	10
Gross motor coordination, motivation and attitudes towards traffic rules in primary school children: A quasi-experimental pre–post cycling intervention study	10
Preservice physical education teachers’ perceptions of initial teacher education	10
Obstacle course-based versus traditional physical education: Which promotes more physical activity and less sedentary behaviour?	9
Creative dance – practising and improving … what? A study in physical education teacher education	9
Swimming competence of 9–10-year-old Norwegian primary school children: A cross-sectional study of physical education	9
Understanding (and extending) the conceptual boundaries of policy research in physical education: A scoping review	8
Relationships of a Cooperative Learning intervention in physical education with children's self-perception dimensions	8
Motivational processes matter: Understanding the choice of physical education as an elective in secondary school	8
Bildung : A German student-centered approach to health and physical education	8
The transformation of ball games as pedagogic discourse within physical education teacher education	8
The role of marginalisation and role stressors in physical education teachers’ perceived mattering	8
Adolescents’ enjoyment in face-to-face physical education during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Grading the physical self: Exploring the links between physical education grades, body image, and functional investment over one academic school year	8
Online teaching and learning in physical education teacher education: A mixed studies review of literature	8
How is observed (de)motivating teaching associated with student motivation and device-based physical activity during physical education?	7
Motivation profiles in school physical education and the role of motor competence in profile memberships: A four-year latent transition analysis	7
‘The teacher could correct me without being there’: Adapting distance education approaches to promote physical activity during lockdown	7
Physical education pre-service teachers’ perceptions of learning about the spectrum of teaching styles and its role in their pedagogical awareness and practice	7
An analysis of content development in physical education: Preschool teachers’ selection of instructional tasks	7
Students’ perceptions of physical education teachers’ (de)motivating styles via the circumplex approach: Differences by gender, grade level, experiences, intention to be active, and learning	6
Choreographing meaningfulness: Boys’ experiences of dance in primary school	6
The effect of maturation on children's experience of physical education: Lessons learned from academy sport	6
Invisible on the field: Experiences of students with visual impairment in physical education in Nepal	6
Public elementary school teachers’ positioning in teaching physical education to Japanese language learners	6
Analysing the physical education teaching competencies of pre-service teachers through observation	6
‘Let us wear our own Goddamn clothes’ : Students’ perceptions of school uniform as a barrier to physical activity and physical education participation in schools	6
The interplay between student-centred pedagogical strategies and preservice teachers’ epistemological development in physical education teacher education	6
Binary and non-binary trans students’ experiences in physical education: A systematic review	6
The structural and convergent validity of the FMS ² assessment tool among 8- to 12-year-old children	6
Examination of associations across transformational teacher leadership, motivational orientation, enjoyment, and boredom in physical education students	5
The Spectrum of Teaching Styles and models-based practice for physical education	5
Principals’ attitudes and intentions toward supporting adapted physical education	5
Acute enhancement of executive functions through cognitively challenging physical activity games in elementary physical education	5
“I want kids to have the same feeling as I do towards physical activity”: Acculturation of British preservice physical education teachers	5
Physical education in rural schools: A scoping review	5
Growth trajectories and roles of expectancy, task value, and cost in middle-school physical education	5
Pupils’ meaningful experiences in outdoor aquatic education	5
Muslim students’ experiences of physical education: A scoping review	5
Perceived organizational support, marginalization, isolation, emotional exhaustion, and job satisfaction of PETE faculty members	5
Understanding Midwestern US Teacher Socialization during the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
“We can do this”: Physical educators’ role breadth self-efficacy to be involved with CSPAPs from an occupational socialization perspective	5
From kindergarten to primary school – Physical education as a support for students’ transition	5
Learning to facilitate student voice in primary physical education	5
Psychological needs satisfaction in physical education predicts a positive development of motivation in early adolescence: A latent growth modeling study	4

Engaging young people with disabilities in research about their experiences of physical education and sport: A scoping review of methodologies and methods	4
The purpose of primary physical education: The views of teacher educators	4
Exploring teacher educator pedagogical decision-making about a combined pedagogy of social justice and meaningful physical education	4
Physical education teachers’ experiences of the meaning of feedback in PE	4
Exploring young children's enjoyment of physical education using the Write, Draw, and Tell method	4
‘Now I think you have been bewitching and bewildering me’: The utilisation of Aporia in Game-Based Approaches as a means of deconstructing and reconstruc	4
Informal learning contexts in the construction of physical education student teachers’ professional identity	4
Co-development of a gamified physical education movement competence intervention with school stakeholders	4
Growing voice: Insights from children's experiences of student voice practices in primary PE	4
Why assessment in physical education is still problematic: A critical interpretive synthesis of physical education assessment literature	4
Examining the relationships among preservice physical education teachers’ beliefs, emotions, and professional identity	3
Towards precarity? The occupational situation of physical education teachers in Poland	3
A figurational analysis of secondary physical education gendered changing room procedures and practices in England	3
Teachers learning to use student voice in primary physical education – ready, steady, go!	3
Developing a framework for a games-based injury prevention exercise programme for post-primary (12–18 years) physical education class: A Delphi poll study	3
Japanese elementary teachers’ experiences during online professional development regarding involvement of immigrant parents in physical education	3
Is the development of physical literacy ubiquitous in high-quality physical education?	3
Perceptions of lifelong physical activity and the physical literacy journey: The voices of children and young people across the island of Ireland	3
The acute effect of heart rate monitor projection on exercise effort in school students	3
Formative and shared assessment: Literature review on the main contributions in physical education and physical education teacher education	3
Teaching about planning in pre-service physical education teacher education: A collaborative self-study	3
Gendered grouping practices in secondary physical education in England: Listening to student voice	3
Formative assessment of motor learning through digital tools in physical education: A systematic literature review	3
Associations between physical educators’ appearance and sex and high school pupils’ cognitive performance and perceptions of teacher characteristics	3
‘It is hard to establish boundaries’: Pupils’ and teachers’ perceptions of blurred lines between banter and bullying in secondary physical education	3
Exploring the co-construction of an action research experience between a teacher educator and pre-service teachers	3
Reviews in the field of sports pedagogy: A look behind the scenes	3