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. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-08-01 to 2023-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring the changes of physical education in the age of Covid-19	54
Gamification and physical education. Viability and preliminary views from students and teachers	49
Perceived teachers’ behavior and students’ engagement in physical education: the mediating role of basic psychological needs and self-determined motivation	36
The effects of self-controlled video feedback on motor learning and self-efficacy in a Physical Education setting: an exploratory study on the shot-put	33
Towards a pedagogy of love: exploring pre-service teachers’ and youth’s experiences of an activist sport pedagogical model	29
Re-thinking pedagogical content knowledge for physical education teachers – implications for physical education teacher education	27
LGBTQ Research in physical education: a rising tide?	26
Between hope and happening: Problematizing the M and the P in models-based practice	25
Adaptive expertise – a characteristic of expertise in outdoor instructors?	24
An integrated blended learning approach for physical education teacher education programmes: teacher educators’ and pre-service teachers’ experiences	23
Examining early adolescents’ motivation for physical education: associations with actual and perceived motor competence	22
An ecological dynamics conceptualisation of physical ‘education’: Where we have been and where we could go next	21
Pedagogical principles that support the prioritisation of meaningful experiences in physical education: conceptual and practical considerations	21
Effects of the iPad and mobile application-integrated physical education on children’s physical activity and psychosocial beliefs	21
Physical education and school bullying: a systematic review	20
Time to SHAPE Up: developing policies, standards and practices that are socially just	20
#SHAPEsoWhite	18
Heteronormativity meets queering in physical education: the views of PE teachers and LGBTIQ+ students	18
Applying the bioecological theory to the study of fundamental motor skills	18
Toward a critical race pedagogy of physical education	17
The effect of a content knowledge teacher professional workshop on enacted pedagogical content knowledge and student learning in a throwing unit	17
Exploring the educational landscape of juggling – challenging notions of ability in physical education	17
The influence of online physical activity interventions on children and young people’s engagement with physical activity: a systematic review	16
Critical pedagogy and curriculum transformation in Secondary Health and Physical Education	16
Re-conceptualizing embodied pedagogies in physical education by creating pre-text vignettes to trigger pleasure ‘in’ movement	16

Advocating for Service-Learning as a pedagogical model in Physical Education: towards an activist and transformative approach	16
Physical education teachers’ perceptions of the successes, constraints, and possibilities associated with implementing the sport education model	15
Exploring primary pre-service teachers’ use of ‘assessment for learning’ while teaching primary physical education during school placement	15
Experiences of teaching and learning in K-12 physical education during COVID-19: an international comparative case study	15
An analysis of in-game feedback provided by coaches in an Australian Football League competition	15
A referee perspective on the educational practice of competitive youth games: exploring the pedagogical function of parents, coaches and referees in grassroots soccer.	13
Using meaningful experiences as a vision for physical education teaching and teacher education practice	12
Investigating the impact of a Freirean informed coach education programme	12
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	12
An experimental, video-based investigation into the motivating impact of choice and positive feedback among students with different motor competence levels	12
The use of digital media in primary school PE – student perspectives on product-oriented ways of lesson staging	11
Using the meaningful physical education features as a lens to view student experiences of democratic pedagogy in higher education	11
How do competitiveness and previous contact with people with disabilities impact on attitudes after an awareness intervention in physical education?	11
‘There is no right or wrong way': exploring expressive dance assignments in physical education	11
Preservice teachers’ learning to implement culturally relevant physical education with the teaching personal and social responsibility model	11
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) for professional development: meeting the needs and expectations of physical education teachers and youth sport coaches	11
Cooperative learning in physical education: a study of students’ learning journey over 24 lessons	11
A national analysis of the content knowledge of Turkish physical education teacher education students	11
Nonlinear Pedagogy and its implications for practice in the Singapore PE context	10
Evaluation of the Move 2 Learn program, a community-based movement and pre-literacy intervention for young children	10
Sport education as a cooperative learning endeavour	10
Finnish students’ enjoyment and anxiety levels during fitness testing classes	10
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	10
Infusing disability into coach education and development: a critical review and agenda for change	10
Development of a self-report scale to assess children’s perceived physical literacy	9
‘Being a team, working together, and being kind’: Primary students’ perspectives of cooperative learning's contribution to their social and emotional learning	9
Association between gross motor competence and health-related quality of life in (pre)schoolchildren: the mediating role of cardiorespiratory fitness	9
The relations between students’ causality orientations and teachers’ interpersonal behaviors with students’ basic need satisfaction and frustration, intention to physical activity, and well-being	9
Mental imagery training programs for developing sport-specific motor skills: a systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Delphi investigation of strategies to develop cultural competence in physical education teacher education	9
A review of the penetration of Francophone research on intervention in physical education and sport in Anglophone journals since 2010	9
Promoting instructional alignment in physical education teacher education	8
Coaches’ perceptions of decision making in rugby union	8
Preservice teachers perspectives and experiences teaching personal and social responsibility	8
Stakeholder perceptions of physical literacy assessment in primary school children	8
What do we know about pedagogical models in physical education so far? An umbrella review	8
In(di)visable: inquiring into being ‘othered’ as a means to teach social justice in PHETE	8
Pre-service teachers learning through service-learning in a low SES school	8
Learning in the educational landscapes of juggling, unicycling, and dancing	8
Academics’ perspectives on the future of sport education	7
Games-based movement education: developing a sense of self, belonging, and community through games	7
‘Feeling better’: embodied self-knowledge as an aspect of movement capability	7
Enhancing social cohesion in PE classes within an intercultural learning program: results of a quasi-experimental intervention study	7
Intervention programme to prevent bullying in adolescents in physical education classes (PREBULLPE): a quasi-experimental study	7
‘I was always made fun of for being fat’: first-hand accounts of bullying in children’s football	7
Mapping the physical literacy controversy: an analysis of key actors within scholarly literature	7
Do goal clarification and process feedback positively affect students’ need-based experiences? A quasi-experimental study grounded in Self-Determination Theory	7
Examining the concept of engagement in physical education	7
The effects of gamification on the motivation and basic psychological needs of secondary school physical education students	7
Effects of an 8-week school-based intervention programme on Irish school children's fundamental movement skills	7

Health education assessment practices used by physical education and health teachers in a collaborative action research	7
Motor competence assessment in physical education – convergent validity between fundamental movement skills and functional movement assessments in adolescence	7
Developing evidence-informed principles for trauma-aware pedagogies in physical education	7
Is knowledge really power? Characteristics contributing to social status during group work in physical education	6
Aligning the principles of assessment for learning to learning in physical education: A review of literature	6
The art of the question: the structure of questions posed by youth soccer coaches during training	6
Equity and diversity in health, physical activity, and education: connecting the past, mapping the present, and exploring the future	6
Grading in Portuguese secondary school physical education: assessment parameters, gender differences and associations with academic achievement	6
PE at Home: keeping the ‘E’ in PE while home-schooling during a pandemic	6
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
A national study on the state and status of physical education in South African public schools	6
Promoting schoolchildren’s self-esteem in physical education: testing the effectiveness of a five-month teacher training	6
The gendered social representation of physical education and sport science higher education in Spain	5
Disrupting phonocentricism for teaching Deaf pupils: prospective physical education teachers’ learning about visual pedagogies and non-verbal communication	5
‘Free but not free-free’: teaching creative aspects of dance in physical education teacher education	5
Training programmes to learn how to ride a bicycle independently for children and youths: a systematic review	5
Service-learning experiences for pre-service teachers: cultural competency and behavior management challenges when working with a diverse low-income community	5
Transformation of complex movements from policy to practice – a discourse analysis of Swedish physical education teachers’ concepts of moving	5
Pre-service teachers’ gendered attitudes towards role modelling in health and physical education	5
‘Can we play the real sport?’ Co-creating a student-centered after-school sports club	5
Introduction to the PESP special issue: ‘Developing movement capability in physical education’	5
‘No perfect image’: health, fitness and visual affects with youth after-school	5
Fit for the job? How corporeal expectations shape physical education teachers’ understandings of content, pedagogy, and the purposes of physical education	5
Regulation of tactical learning in team sports – the case of the tactical-decision learning model	5
Between intentionality and reality to promote positive youth development in sport-based programs: a case study in Brazil	5
Cognitively enriched physical activity may foster motor competence and executive function as early as preschool age: a pilot trial	5
Physical education from LGBTQ+ students’ perspective. A systematic review of qualitative studies	5
Level of opposition constrains offensive performance in consecutive game situations. An analysis according to game principles	5
‘We united to defend ourselves and face our struggles’: nurturing a physical education teachers’ community of practice in a precarious context	5
Differences in perceived physical literacy between teachers delivering physical education in schools: classroom teachers vs physical education teachers	5
Feminists against fad, fizz ed: a poetic commentary exploring the notion of Joe Wicks as physical education	4
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	4
A collaborative approach to teaching about teaching using models-based practice: developing coherence in one PETE module	4
How does physical education teacher education matter? A methodological approach to understanding transitions from PETE to school physical education	4
Capturing the moment: understanding embodied interactions in early primary physical education	4
Exploring Australian teachers’ perceptions of physical literacy: a mixed-methods study	4
Cracks in the narrative: Black and Latinx pre-service PE teachers in predominantly white PETE programs	4
Coaching in the shadows: critically examining the unintended (non)influence of pedagogical practice	4
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	4
Understanding the complexity of learning through movement	4
Using Flipgrid to improve reflection: a collaborative online approach to coach development	4
‘The teacher makes us feel like we are a family’: students from refugee backgrounds’ perceptions of physical education in Swedish schools	4
Knowledge in the school subject of physical education: a Bernsteinian perspective	4
Effectiveness of a lesson study intervention on teacher behaviour and student motivation in physical education lessons	4
What physical education becomes when pupils with neurodevelopmental disorders are integrated: a transactional understanding	4
How do high-level youth soccer players approach and solve game problems? The role of strategic understanding	4
Synthesis and literature review of different mixed methods designs in pedagogical research in physical education	3
PLitPE: an intervention for physical literacy enriched pedagogy in Canadian elementary school physical education classes	3
Learning about ‘inclusive’ pedagogies through a special school placement	3
A Dutch perspective on sexual integrity in sport contexts: definition and meaning for practice	3
Coaching player decision making in rugby union: exploring coaches espoused theories and theories in use as an indicator of effective coaching practice	3
Divergent learning experiences in sports enhance cognitive executive functions and creativity in students	3
Risk and safety management in physical education: teachers’ knowledge	3
Mixed-methods approaches to learning strategies and self-regulation in Physical Education: a literature review	3
Operationalizing physical literacy through sport education in a university physical education program	3
An analysis of Chinese preservice physical education teachers’ attitudes toward school-based fitness testing in physical education settings	3
Transforming physical education: an analysis of context and resources that support curriculum transformation and enactment	3
Rethinking the classification of games and sports in physical education: a response to changes in sport and participation	3
Fostering pre-service teachers’ knowledge of ‘teaching games for understanding’ via video-based vs. text-based teaching examples	3
Enacting a body-focused curriculum with young girls through an activist approach: Leveraging the after-school space	3
Rethinking pedagogical practices with care-experienced young people: lessons from a sport-based programme analysed through a Freirean lens	3