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A web of achieving in physical education: Goals, interest, outside-school activity and learning

Ang Chen, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2004 - 
- Vol. 14, Iss: 3, pp 169-182
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In this paper, the authors examined the dynamics of the motivators as associated with organized outside-school physical activity experiences and learning outcomes and found that the students participating in organized outside school physical activities had a stronger ego-goal orientation and were more physically active in learning.
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This article is published in Learning and Individual Differences.The article was published on 2004-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 34 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Experiential learning & Active learning.

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The Schools We Deserve@@@A Place Called School: Prospects for the Future

Jo Anne Pagano, +1 more
- 21 Jan 1987 - 
TL;DR: A study of U.S. schools was carried out over four years as discussed by the authors, where trained investigators went into more than 1,000 classrooms in 38 elementary and secondary schools in seven different sections of the United States.
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An investigation of the status and practice of life orientation in South African schools in two provinces

Edna Rooth
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of "uniformity" and "uncertainty" in the context of education.iii.iiiiii.
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At the boundary of school : Continuity and discontinuity in learning across contexts

TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize 186 empirical studies focusing on continuity and discontinuity in students' learning across school and out-of-school contexts, and find that continuity can be the result of different educational intentions, but it also occurs as a given.
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Predictors and outcomes of situational interest during a science learning task

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined change in students' situational interest as a function of student and task characteristics and found that students working with the more concrete version of the simulation reported an increase in their interest while the opposite was true for students working in the more abstract version.
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Situational interest, cognitive engagement, and achievement in physical education

TL;DR: The findings reinforced the value of using workbooks to facilitate cognitive knowledge learning in physical education, but raised questions about the direct function of situational interest on engaging students in cognitive learning.
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Situational interest in physical education: a function of learning task design.

TL;DR: The findings seem to suggest that to enhance interestingness of a physical activity task, an option for physical educators may be to increase cognitive demand rather than reduce physical demand.
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Students' Perceptions of the Physical Education Class Environment for Boys and Girls and the Perceived Motivational Climate

TL;DR: It is suggested that a mastery orientation increases students' motivation and maintains equality in physical education.
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Gender Differences in Children's Conceptions of Competence and Motivation in Physical Education

TL;DR: The authors investigated the competence perceptions and motivational beliefs of 50 physical education students who had adopted stereotypical perceptions of two gender oriented physical activities, dance and basketball, and asked students to explain why basketball is sometimes viewed as more appropriate for boys and dance is more suitable for girls.
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Gender and Interest-Based Motivation in Learning Dance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the extent to which personal interest and situational interest accounted for boys and girls' learning outcomes in a middle school physical education dance unit and found that both groups were equally motivated with situational interest.
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