OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring the changes of physical education in the age of Covid-19	73
Perceived teachers’ behavior and students’ engagement in physical education: the mediating role of basic psychological needs and self-determined motivation	50
Pedagogical principles that support the prioritisation of meaningful experiences in physical education: conceptual and practical considerations	39
An integrated blended learning approach for physical education teacher education programmes: teacher educators’ and pre-service teachers’ experiences	38
Examining early adolescents’ motivation for physical education: associations with actual and perceived motor competence	36
The influence of online physical activity interventions on children and young people’s engagement with physical activity: a systematic review	34
Between hope and happening: Problematizing the M and the P in models-based practice	32
Heteronormativity meets queering in physical education: the views of PE teachers and LGBTIQ+ students	31
Experiences of teaching and learning in K-12 physical education during COVID-19: an international comparative case study	27
An ecological dynamics conceptualisation of physical ‘education’: Where we have been and where we could go next	25
Advocating for Service-Learning as a pedagogical model in Physical Education: towards an activist and transformative approach	25
Development of a self-report scale to assess children’s perceived physical literacy	24
Infusing disability into coach education and development: a critical review and agenda for change	21
Mental imagery training programs for developing sport-specific motor skills: a systematic review and meta-analysis	21
Investigating the impact of a Freirean informed coach education programme	20
The use of digital media in primary school PE – student perspectives on product-oriented ways of lesson staging	18
Nonlinear Pedagogy and its implications for practice in the Singapore PE context	17
Impact of a physical education-based behavioural skill training program on cognitive antecedents and exercise and sport behaviour among adolescents: a cluster-randomized controlled trial	16
Developing evidence-informed principles for trauma-aware pedagogies in physical education	15
The effects of gamification on the motivation and basic psychological needs of secondary school physical education students	15
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) for professional development: meeting the needs and expectations of physical education teachers and youth sport coaches	15
Student outcomes of the physical education and physical literacy (PEPL) approach: a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial of a multicomponent intervention to improve physical literacy in prima	15
Motor competence assessment in physical education – convergent validity between fundamental movement skills and functional movement assessments in adolescence	14
Aligning the principles of assessment for learning to learning in physical education: A review of literature	14
‘Feeling better’: embodied self-knowledge as an aspect of movement capability	14

Promoting instructional alignment in physical education teacher education	14
PE at Home: keeping the ‘E’ in PE while home-schooling during a pandemic	14
Academics’ perspectives on the future of sport education	13
What do we know about pedagogical models in physical education so far? An umbrella review	13
Rethinking the classification of games and sports in physical education: a response to changes in sport and participation	13
Do goal clarification and process feedback positively affect students’ need-based experiences? A quasi-experimental study grounded in Self-Determination Theory	13
How do competitiveness and previous contact with people with disabilities impact on attitudes after an awareness intervention in physical education?	12
Learning in the educational landscapes of juggling, unicycling, and dancing	12
Intervention programme to prevent bullying in adolescents in physical education classes (PREBULLPE): a quasi-experimental study	12
A national study on the state and status of physical education in South African public schools	11
Effects of an 8-week school-based intervention programme on Irish school children's fundamental movement skills	11
Sport education as a cooperative learning endeavour	11
Games-based movement education: developing a sense of self, belonging, and community through games	11
Finnish students’ enjoyment and anxiety levels during fitness testing classes	11
Synthesis and literature review of different mixed methods designs in pedagogical research in physical education	11
Mapping the physical literacy controversy: an analysis of key actors within scholarly literature	10
Examining the concept of engagement in physical education	10
Cognitively enriched physical activity may foster motor competence and executive function as early as preschool age: a pilot trial	10
The relations between students’ causality orientations and teachers’ interpersonal behaviors with students’ basic need satisfaction and frustration, intention to physical activity, and well-being	10
In(di)visable: inquiring into being ‘othered’ as a means to teach social justice in PHETE	10
Physical education from LGBTQ+ students’ perspective. A systematic review of qualitative studies	10
Coaching in the shadows: critically examining the unintended (non)influence of pedagogical practice	9
Knowledge in the school subject of physical education: a Bernsteinian perspective	9
Association between gross motor competence and health-related quality of life in (pre)schoolchildren: the mediating role of cardiorespiratory fitness	9
Differences in perceived physical literacy between teachers delivering physical education in schools: classroom teachers vs physical education teachers	9
‘I was always made fun of for being fat’: first-hand accounts of bullying in children’s football	9
The art of the question: the structure of questions posed by youth soccer coaches during training	9
Coaching player decision making in rugby union: exploring coaches espoused theories and theories in use as an indicator of effective coaching practice	9
The importance of satisfying children’s basic psychological needs in primary school physical education for PE-motivation, and its relations with fundamental motor and PE-related skills	9
Physical activity during physical education in elementary school in China: the role of teachers	8
Stakeholder perceptions of physical literacy assessment in primary school children	8
‘We united to defend ourselves and face our struggles’: nurturing a physical education teachers’ community of practice in a precarious context	8
Regulation of tactical learning in team sports – the case of the tactical-decision learning model	8
Taking action for social justice in HPE classrooms through explicit critical pedagogies	8
Social justice knowledge construction among physical education teacher educators: the value of personal, professional, and educational experiences	8
How do high-level youth soccer players approach and solve game problems? The role of strategic understanding	8
Service-learning experiences for pre-service teachers: cultural competency and behavior management challenges when working with a diverse low-income community	8
The gendered social representation of physical education and sport science higher education in Spain	8
‘Free but not free-free’: teaching creative aspects of dance in physical education teacher education	8
Exploring Australian teachers’ perceptions of physical literacy: a mixed-methods study	8
Using Flipgrid to improve reflection: a collaborative online approach to coach development	8
Effectiveness of a lesson study intervention on teacher behaviour and student motivation in physical education lessons	7
Feminists against fad, fizz ed: a poetic commentary exploring the notion of Joe Wicks as physical education	7
‘Can we play the real sport?’ Co-creating a student-centered after-school sports club	7
Understanding the complexity of learning through movement	7
‘The teacher makes us feel like we are a family’: students from refugee backgrounds’ perceptions of physical education in Swedish schools	7
Fit for the job? How corporeal expectations shape physical education teachers’ understandings of content, pedagogy, and the purposes of physical education	7
Mixed-methods approaches to learning strategies and self-regulation in Physical Education: a literature review	7
Practising the practice. Towards a theory of practising in physical education from a Bildung-theoretical perspective	7
Between intentionality and reality to promote positive youth development in sport-based programs: a case study in Brazil	7

Divergent learning experiences in sports enhance cognitive executive functions and creativity in students	7
Teacher and school outcomes of the Physical Education and Physical Literacy (PEPL) approach: a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial of a multicomponent intervention to improve physical litera	6
Effects of a training course on creation of an empowering motivational climate in physical education: a quasi-experimental study	6
Evaluating the impact of a coach development intervention for improving coaching practices and player outcomes in football: the MASTER Coaching randomised control trial	6
How is embodiment in physical education theoretically conceptualised? A concept analysis	6
The student's experience of teacher support in French vocational high-school classes with difficulties in school engagement in physical education: interest of mixed methods research	6
Creation of an instructional model in a community of practice and its impact on relationships between members	6
Effectiveness of a Mastery Climate Cognitive-Motor Skills School-based Intervention in children living in poverty: Motor and Academic performance, self-perceptions, and BMI	6
Social-ecological and biographical perspectives of principals’ involvement in comprehensive school physical activity programs: a person-centered analysis	6
Everyone is welcome under the big top: a multiple case study on circus arts instruction in physical education	6
Disrupting phonocentricism for teaching Deaf pupils: prospective physical education teachers’ learning about visual pedagogies and non-verbal communication	6
A collaborative approach to teaching about teaching using models-based practice: developing coherence in one PETE module	6
How does physical education teacher education matter? A methodological approach to understanding transitions from PETE to school physical education	6
Training effects of artificial rules on youth soccer team tactical behavior	5
Enactive and ecological dynamics approaches: complementarity and differences for interventions in physical education lessons	5
Level of opposition constrains offensive performance in consecutive game situations. An analysis according to game principles	5
What physical education becomes when pupils with neurodevelopmental disorders are integrated: a transactional understanding	5
Fostering pre-service teachers’ knowledge of ‘teaching games for understanding’ via video-based vs. text-based teaching examples	5
What about physical education and Sustainable Development Goals? A scoping review	5
‘Fighting like a girl’: qualitative analysis of the gendered movement learning in the Spanish Olympic karate team	5
Transforming physical education: an analysis of context and resources that support curriculum transformation and enactment	5
PLitPE: an intervention for physical literacy enriched pedagogy in Canadian elementary school physical education classes	5
The frustration of novelty and basic psychological needs as predictors of maladaptive outcomes in physical education	5
Capturing the moment: understanding embodied interactions in early primary physical education	5
Reflection and reflective practice in high-performance sport coaching: a heuristic device	5
Operationalizing physical literacy through sport education in a university physical education program	5
Cracks in the narrative: Black and Latinx pre-service PE teachers in predominantly white PETE programs	5
Learning about ‘inclusive’ pedagogies through a special school placement	5
Physical activity during school-time and fundamental movement skills: a study among preschoolers with and without physical education classes	5
Introduction to the PESP special issue: ‘Developing movement capability in physical education’	5
Training programmes to learn how to ride a bicycle independently for children and youths: a systematic review	5
Motor competence, motivation and enjoyment in physical education to profile children in relation to physical activity behaviors	5
Toward the virtuous mover: a neo-Aristotelian interpretation of physical education	4
A Dutch perspective on sexual integrity in sport contexts: definition and meaning for practice	4
Scholars’ perspectives of positive youth development in coach education for high school sports	4
How physical education teachers are positioned in models scholarship: a scoping review	4
Effects of gamified didactic with exergames on the psychological variables associated with promoting physical exercise: results of a natural experiment run in primary schools	4
Practising collaboration in model implementation in physical education	4
Education and professionalization of Physical Education Teachers: research trends and developments in German-language literature in relation to Anglophone perspectives	4
Observing physical education teachers’ need-supportive and need-thwarting styles using a circumplex approach: how does it relate to student outcomes?	4
Supporting PETE students to implement an alternative pedagogy	4
Social and emotional learning for underserved children through a sports-based youth development program grounded in teaching personal and social responsibility	4
Students’ motivational experiences across profiles of perceived need-supportive and need-thwarting teaching behaviors in physical education	4
Pre-service teachers’ negotiation of meaning in their Physical Education Teacher Education programme: a two-year follow-up ethnography	4
Risk and safety management in physical education: teachers’ knowledge	4
Students’ perceptions of fitness testing in physical education across primary, secondary, and pre-university school levels: a motivational profiles perspective	3
An analysis of Chinese preservice physical education teachers’ attitudes toward school-based fitness testing in physical education settings	3
Two ways teachers can develop greater harmonious passion	3
Developing a socially-just teaching personal and social responsibility (TPSR) approach: a pedagogy for social justice for physical education (teacher education)	3
A longitudinal examination of the influence of winning or losing with motivational climate as a mediator on enjoyment, perceived competence, and intention to be physically active in youth basketball	3
Assessing the motivational climates in early physical education curricula underpinned by motor learning theory: SAMPLE-PE	3
Exploring the phenomenological meanings of assessment in physical education through primary teachers’ lived experiences	3
Development of prosocial competencies in PETE and Sport Science students. Social justice, Service-Learning and Physical Activity in cultural diversity contexts	3
Perseverance in motor tasks: the impact of different types of positive feedback	3
Developing a love for playing games: a clarification of why Digital Video Games Approach is not Gamification	3
Narrative as a learning tool for coaches of athletes with a disability: using stories to translate research into practice	3
Emancipation or simulation? The pedagogy of ignorance and action research in PETE	3
How ball games experts legitimate ball games knowledge within Swedish physical education teacher education	3
Challenges in learning aerobic and anaerobic concepts: an interpretative understanding from the cognitive load theory perspective	3
Coach experiences of formal coach education developed by national governing bodies: a systematic review	3
Learning in high-performance action sports: insights into new and evolving contexts	3
Generalization and maintenance of skill trials from physical education to recess in elementary school	3
Graduate student experience in focus: a photovoice investigation of physical and health education graduate students in Canada	3
Relationships among peer- relatedness, self-confidence, peer victimization, social anxiety and school satisfaction in American high school students	3
Deconstructing health and physical education teacher education: a mapping and analysis of programme structure and content in Australia	3
Getting ‘more and more comfortable’: using an Activist Approach in a dance PE content course	3
Pedagogical support for the Test of Gross Motor Development – 3 for children with neurotypical development and with Autism Spectrum Disorder: validity for an animated mobile application	3
How much circus is allowed? – Challenges and hindrances when embracing risk in physical education	3