A Reexamination of Pre-Service Physical Education Teacher Attitudes toward School-Based Health-Related Fitness Testing in the USA

Autor/inn/en	Liu, Xiaolu; Keating, Xiaofen D.
Titel	A Reexamination of Pre-Service Physical Education Teacher Attitudes toward School-Based Health-Related Fitness Testing in the USA
Quelle	In: European Physical Education Review, 27 (2021) 4, S.981-999 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Liu, Xiaolu) ORCID (Keating, Xiaofen D.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1356-336X
DOI	10.1177/1356336X211005800
Schlagwörter	Preservice Teachers; Physical Education Teachers; Student Attitudes; Physical Fitness; Tests; Teacher Characteristics; Construct Validity; Test Reliability + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Physical education; Physical training; Teacher; Teachers; Sportlehrer; Schülerverhalten; Leistungsfähigkeit; Examination; Prüfung; Examen; Testreliabilität
Abstract	Pre-service physical education teachers (PPETs) may be implementing health-related fitness testing (HRFT) in schools in the future. Thus, exploring their attitudes toward HRFT would help us understand physical education (PE) teachers' attitudes toward HRFT. This study investigated PPET attitudes toward HRFT in the USA and the effects of teacher characteristics (i.e. gender, ethnicity, year in university, and previous experience with fitness tests) on attitudes. A total of 501 PPETs (283 males, 56.5%; 218 females, 43.5%) aged 28.12 years (SD = 7.34) were included. The previously validated PPETs' attitudes toward HRFT survey was used to collect the data using Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Confirmatory factor analysis and Cronbach's alpha were first used to examine the validity and reliability of the instrument. Then analysis of variance and multivariate analysis of variance were performed to test overall attitude differences and attitude subdomain differences in teacher characteristics, respectively. The results generated by the reliable and valid scale indicated that only slightly positive overall attitudes toward HRFT were found among PPETs. Year in university had a significant effect only on the cognitive component of attitude. PPETs' previous experience with fitness tests had significant effects on all aspects of attitudes. No gender or ethnicity differences were found, however. More efforts are needed to improve fitness education in both higher education and K-12 PE programmes in order to help students develop positive attitudes and experiences toward HRFT. Future studies should focus on exploring how PETE programmes prepare PPETs for using HRFT in K-12 programmes. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01