Development and Validation of Teaching Quality Scale for University Physical Education

Focusing on preservice classroom teachers (PCTs) with a physical education (PE) specialization, this exploratory case study aimed at investigating the teaching quality in the lessons offered by these teachers during their field placement, as well as examining their views about teaching PE. Toward this end, seven volunteer female PCTs studying at a national university in Cyprus were recruited; all had attended three PE specialization courses before their field placement. Data were gathered through systematic observations, semi-structured interviews, and document analysis. The quantitative data were analysed using SPSS and the qualitative data using case and cross-case analysis. These analyses suggested that the PCTs could effectively employ classroom and time management as well as skill demonstration; they could also provide quality student practice. In contrast, task progression, accountability of student practice, and task explicitness appeared to be more challenging for them to successfully enact. Interestingly, their lesson plans foreshadowed how effectively most of the examined practices would be employed by the PCTs. This study contributes a new understanding of PCTs’ PE teaching during field placement and their views thereof. The implications of the findings for PCTs’ education are discussed.

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Research on the Evaluation Index System and the Grey Clustering Analysis Model of Teaching Quality of Physical Education in Higher Education

International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) ◽

10.3991/ijet.v10i8.5281 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 10 (8) ◽

pp. 59 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Baoquan Wu

Keyword(s):

Physical Education ◽

Clustering Analysis ◽

Evaluation System ◽

Quality Evaluation ◽

Teaching Quality ◽

Colleges And Universities ◽

Evaluation Index System ◽

Analysis Model ◽

Grey Clustering

Teaching quality evaluation of physical education usually involves multiple influence factors with grey and uncertain information. This brings about limitations to effective evaluation of teaching quality of physical education in colleges and universities. Thus, this paper draws merits from previous research and proposes a teaching quality evaluation system and model of physical education in colleges and universities. First, based on real situations, grey categories of evaluation state for physical education teaching quality are established. The definite weighted functions of grey category of evaluation state are confirmed. Specific steps of the teaching quality evaluation model based on grey clustering analysis are accounted for. Finally, a case study is introduced to verify the model. This model enlightens a new way to evaluate teaching quality of physical education in colleges and universities.

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Quality of Youth Sport Friendships: Measurement Development and Validation

Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology ◽

10.1123/jsep.21.2.145 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 145-166 ◽

Cited By ~ 55

Author(s):

Maureen R. Weiss ◽

Alan L. Smith

Keyword(s):

Psychosocial Development ◽

Youth Sport ◽

Friendship Quality ◽

Measurement Development ◽

Future Research ◽

Quality Scale ◽

Core Set ◽

Test Retest Reliability ◽

Development And Validation

The role of peers has been neglected in research on youth psychosocial development in sport. The purpose of the present study was to develop and validate a measure of youth sport friendship quality for the purpose of facilitating such research. Dimensions and higher order themes found in Weiss, Smith, and Theeboom’s (1996) qualitative study of sport friendships among children and adolescents, as well as a core set of items from previous research (Parker & Asher, 1993), were used to develop and refine items for a sport friendship quality scale. Over the course of three studies, content, factorial, and construct validity, as well as internal consistency and test-retest reliability, were demonstrated for the Sport Friendship Quality Scale (SFQS). Future research is recommended to examine the role of children’s sport friendship quality on psychosocial development in the physical domain.

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