While stress has always been present in the teaching profession, recent trends such as standardized testing and school and teacher accountability may be making teachers' [...]

Student engagement is a critical issue in education. A key component of engagement is the student's sense of membership. When students believe in and feel a part of the p[...]

Musculoskeletal pain and injury experienced by adolescents leads to behavioral, physical, and psychological consequences. Adolescents with recurrent pain are also more li[...]

One primary goal of physical education is to educate K-12 students to become physically literate individuals who value lifelong physical activity participation (SHAPE Ame[...]

Major obstacles 10 educational effectiveness exist for many low-income students of color who attend urban public schools. Many obstacles appear to be correlated with low [...]

The study was undertaken to ascertain the extent to which practices relating to interscholastic athletic programs in the selected schools correlated with recommendations [...]

Despite the recommendation of the American Medical Association, National Federation of High School Athletic Associations, and the National Athletic Trainers' Association [...]

An assumption associated with professional practice is that professionals will continue to grow and to learn following their preservice professional education programs (H[...]

This paper highlights events and issues in the development of physical education as a school subject. From the origin of physical culture in the German and Swedish "Battl[...]

This research was conducted to investigate the role of value orientations in effective elementary physical educators' curricular decision making. Educational value orient[...]

The purpose of this study was to investigate student perception and attribution patterns of teacher behavior for high-, average-, and low expectancy groups across three i[...]

"The purpose of this study was two-fold. The first intent was to gain an understanding of the factors that influence physical activity participation for middle school gir[...]

Integrating thinking skills such as focusing, information gathering, and organization into all subjects is becoming increasingly important in elementary schools. The nona[...]

The purpose of this study was to determine if self-esteem and augmented feedback had an effect on the amount of negative self-reinforcement which high school girls in phy[...]

How students' experience and learning in an educational context influence their self-directed learning and behavior outside of school has always been an important questio[...]

The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of Dr. William Glasser's control theory and reality therapy as an approach to reducing disruptive behaviors in middle [...]

The purpose of this research was to examine eighth grade male students' conceptions of body image, sociocultural influences, and the extent to which conceptions of body i[...]

The purpose of this study was to present a professional biography of Ethel Loroline Martus Lawther. The writer attempted to trace and identify the professional contributi[...]

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the strength and conditioning component of the United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center an[...]

Background. Situational interest is articulated theoretically as a construct associated with five dimensional sources: novelty, challenge, attention demand, exploration i[...]

Self-determination theory (SDT), when applied in education, emphasizes helping learners internalize extrinsic motivation so as to regulate their learning behavior from an[...]

Fitness of youth is on the decline in the United States. Students entering middle school see a steady decline from fifth grade through the end of high school. The decline[...]

This report analyzes changes in a traditional physical education curriculum in an inner-city high school. The analysis is based on my l4-week participant observation of c[...]

Elementary students spend 7 to 8 hours in school for approximately 175 days of the year. Despite knowing that physical activity can aid in academic success and benefit th[...]