Purpose: To investigate youth basketball coaches' perceptions and implementation of fundamental movement skills training. Method: Snowball and criterion-based sampling approaches were used to survey youth basketball coaches (n=79) beliefs and experiences relating to their perceptions and implementation of nonbasketball-specific skills and…

Purpose: This study evaluated the feasibility of the "Start to Move" (S2M) digital assessment of children's fundamental movement skills being implemented by primary school teachers within PE lessons. Methods: Nine primary school teachers in the United Kingdom trialed S2M weekly over a 6-week period. Posttrial surveys and interviews were…

Purpose: Evidence demonstrates that many school children fail to master fundamental movement skills (FMS). Little is known about the teaching and learning of FMS in Hong Kong. This study aimed to capture voices from both teachers and students to better understand the current FMS practices in primary physical education. Methods: Semistructured…

Purpose: Physical education teacher education programs prepare preservice teachers to lead Comprehensive School Physical Activity Programs. Through the coordination of a university's physical education teacher education program and an elementary school, the purpose of this study was to examine preservice and in-service teachers' perspectives in…

Purpose: This study determines the effect of movement games on executive function among overweight children. Methods: Forty-four overweight children received an intervention of movement games, and 40 overweight children participated in original physical education lessons. An intervention of movement games was conducted three times a week for 8…

Purpose: To describe student learning when physical education teacher and students attempted to develop movement capability. Methods: The study reports on the implementation of a 10-lesson pedagogical sequence. Data were generated using observations, interviews, and student diaries with one grade 9 class (26 students aged approximately 15 years)…

The purpose of this article is to explore physical education (PE) teachers' content knowledge of the emerging concept movement capability. Interviews with eight PE teachers were conducted, partly using a stimulated recall technique which involved watching and commenting on video recorded PE lessons. A phenomenographic analysis was used to outline…

Purpose: Little is known about how teachers acquire specialized content knowledge (SCK). We examine the hypothesis that SCK is not acquired from K-12 physical education and from extracurricular activities characterized by playing; instead, SCK must be explicitly taught to teachers. Method: Students were enrolled in either basic physical activity…

Despite increasing policy emphasis on improving teacher quality, little is known about how teachers acquire their movement content knowledge in physical education teacher education (PETE). To address this question we examined: (a) movement content courses designed to teach K-12 physical education content in the PETE curriculum, (b) the purpose of…

Examination of the movement tasks that eighth-graders engaged in during a 14-lesson volleyball unit and the motor skill responses of high- and low-skilled students revealed that 13 major movement tasks formed a simple to complex progression of activities. (Author/CB)

An overview is presented of the Purpose Process Curriculum Framework (PPCF), designed initially as a conceptual framework for physical education curricular decision making. Information is provided on the development, evaluation, and professional context of the PPCF. (CB)

A discussion of the present status of relevant curriculum theory and the presentation of a proposal for reformulation of the Movement Process Category System, a component of the Purpose Process Curriculum Framework is presented. (CB)

This article presents an analysis of validity issues in curriculum theory and practice concerning the research into the Purpose Process Curriculum Framework purpose dimension. (CB)

The article reports on LaPlante's research (1973) on evaluation of the purpose dimension of the Purpose Process Curriculum Framework, which established a set of criteria for evaluating the framework and demonstrated that the Delphi technique is appropriate for study of physical education curriculum. (CB)

A review is presented of studies pertaining to the development of the Movement Process Category System (MCPS), a dimension of the Purpose Process Curriculum Framework. It is concluded that the studies all contributed to the expansion of the function of the MCPS beyond a classification system of defining and analyzing educational objectives. (CB)