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Ward, Phillip – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2021
Purpose: To identify and define a set of core practices for physical education teacher education (PETE), to situate these practices within existing conceptions of core practices in other subject matters, and to validate the core practices using expert opinion and the evidence-based pedagogy literature. Method: A total of 45 PETE teacher educators,…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Practices, Teacher Educators
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Tsuda, Emi; Ward, Phillip; Atkinson, Obidiah J.; He, Yaohui; Sazama, Deb – International Journal of Kinesiology in Higher Education, 2023
Common content knowledge (CCK) is fundamental for quality instruction and critical to be acquired among physical education preservice teachers (PSTs). The purpose of this study was to develop a soccer CCK test for PSTs and to examine the validity and reliability of the test using Rasch measurement modeling. Two content experts developed a test in…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Test Construction, Test Validity
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Tsuda, Emi; Ward, Phillip; Ressler, James D.; Wyant, James; He, Yaohui; Kim, Insook; Santiago, José A. – International Journal of Kinesiology in Higher Education, 2023
The aim of this study was to develop a valid and reliable basketball common content knowledge (CCK) instrument for preservice teachers (PSTs; BB-CCK-T) in secondary physical education contexts in the United States. The research team used four steps to develop the BB-CCK-T. In the first step, two content experts determined the scope and weight of…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Team Sports
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Tsuda, Emi; Ward, Phillip; Kim, Junyoung; He, Yaohui; Sazama, Debra; Brian, Ali – European Physical Education Review, 2021
The purpose of this study was to develop a valid and reliable common content knowledge (CCK) instrument for pre-service teachers who teach fundamental tennis in secondary schools. The instrument, called the tennis CCK test for pre-service teachers (CCK-Tennis), was administered to 117 undergraduate students who were enrolled in physical education…
Descriptors: Racquet Sports, Test Construction, Test Validity, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Tsuda, Emi; Ward, Phillip; Sazama, Debra; He, Yaohui; Lehwald, Harry; Ko, Bomna; Santiago, José A.; Xie, Xiuye – Physical Educator, 2022
The purpose of this study was to create a valid and reliable volleyball common content knowledge (VB-CCK) test in secondary physical education contexts in the United States. Two physical education teacher educators served as content experts and developed test items for the VB-CCK test. We then established content validity with a group of…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Knowledge Level, Test Validity, Test Reliability
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He, Yaohui; Ward, Phillip; Wang, Xiaozan – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2018
Purpose: Teacher knowledge of rules, techniques, and tactics is called common content knowledge. Such knowledge is essential for effective teaching of physical education. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the validity and reliability of a test of soccer common content knowledge. Method: Rasch modeling was used to evaluate the validity and…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Standards, Teacher Effectiveness
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Devrilmez, Erhan; Dervent, Fatih; Ward, Phillip; Ince, Mustafa Levent – European Physical Education Review, 2019
Common content knowledge (CCK) is comprised of the knowledge of rules, techniques, and tactics and can be used to define the scope of what teachers teach in their lessons. Developing reliable and valid measures of teacher knowledge such as CCK strengthens our understanding of what teachers know and in turn the field's ability to help teachers in…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Physical Education Teachers, Athletics, Elementary School Teachers