OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Physical Education Review is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Formative assessment in physical education: teachers’ experiences when designing and implementing formative assessment activities	34
Beginning, rise, fall, and comeback: Exploring the journey of a physical education teacher community in South Korea	34
Holistic assessment in school physical education: ‘Seeing the whole picture with our trained eye’	32
Despite good intentions: The elusiveness of social justice in health and physical education curricula across different contexts	30
Trauma-informed practices and physical education: A scoping literature review	28
Information and communication technologies in physical education: Exploring the association between role modeling and digital literacy	25
“We have limited time, so it's a zero-sum game”: Influence of secondary organizational socialization on the forms of physical education teacher education provided by European, Asian, and North America	23
Exploring social justice pedagogies in physical education in Austria: Teaching practices for diversity and equity	23
Students’ perceptions of teaching styles use and motivation to participate in PE: A multigroup analysis of the mediating role of basic psychological needs	20
Universal design for learning in physical education: Overview and critical reflection	19
A three-legged stool: Teachers’ views of Junior Cycle Physical Education curriculum change	18
The process(es) of learning about teaching using models-based practice: Pre-service teachers’ experiences	17
The experiences of Latina and Latino blind and visually impaired students in physical education: A retrospective study	16
Physical education teachers’ perceptions and operationalisations of personal and social development goals in primary education	16
Fitting in or standing out? The organisational socialisation of early career physical education specialism graduates through a micropolitical lens	15
More than advocates: Exploring the role of school adults in amplifying the physical education voices of pupils with a severe learning difficulty in a special school in England	15
Re-imagining performance spaces and locations in ecological dynamics: Implications for pedagogical practices in physical education	14
The association of perceived mattering and emotions with physical educator teacher resilience	13
Working with trauma-affected young people in secondary schools: Exploring ‘self-care’ with pre-service physical education teachers	12
The relationship between occupational socialization factors and in-service physical educators’ reported use of sport education	12
Trans-Contextual Model Predicting Change in Out-of-School Physical Activity: A One-Year Longitudinal Study	12
Understandings and enactments of social justice pedagogies in Swedish physical education and health practice	11
Adaptation and testing of the factorial structure of the Achievement Emotional Questionnaire-Short to the Spanish context of physical education classes	11
Journeying into the kinescape of unicycling: A Deleuzian perspective	11
That's what I like! Fostering enjoyment in primary physical education	11

Investigating preservice classroom teachers’ practices and views about teaching physical education lessons: An exploratory case study	10
Preservice physical education teachers’ perceptions of initial teacher education	10
Motivational processes matter: Understanding the choice of physical education as an elective in secondary school	10
Creative dance – practising and improving … what? A study in physical education teacher education	10
Becoming activist teacher educators: The learning journeys of two physical education cooperating teachers in a school–university partnership	10
Obstacle course-based versus traditional physical education: Which promotes more physical activity and less sedentary behaviour?	10
The if, why and how of fitness testing in secondary school physical education in the United Kingdom	10
The role of teaching experience and year level in shaping pre-service PE teachers’ efficacy	10
Swimming competence of 9–10-year-old Norwegian primary school children: A cross-sectional study of physical education	9
Physical education pre-service teachers’ perceptions of learning about the spectrum of teaching styles and its role in their pedagogical awareness and practice	9
The role of marginalisation and role stressors in physical education teachers’ perceived mattering	9
When teachers Google physical literacy: A cartography of controversies analysis	9
‘Involve me, and I learn’: Effects of social status on students’ physical activity, skill, and knowledge during group work	9
Online teaching and learning in physical education teacher education: A mixed studies review of literature	9
Relationships of a Cooperative Learning intervention in physical education with children's self-perception dimensions	9
Effects of a two-stage physical education teacher education programme on preservice teachers’ specialised content knowledge and students’ game-play in a student-centred Sport Education-Step Game appro	9
Adolescents’ enjoyment in face-to-face physical education during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Grading the physical self: Exploring the links between physical education grades, body image, and functional investment over one academic school year	9
The transformation of ball games as pedagogic discourse within physical education teacher education	9
An analysis of content development in physical education: Preschool teachers’ selection of instructional tasks	8
‘The teacher could correct me without being there’: Adapting distance education approaches to promote physical activity during lockdown	8
‘Why don't you really learn anything in PEH?’ – Students’ experiences of valid knowledge and the basis for assessment in physical education and health (PEH)	8
Bildung: A German student-centered approach to health and physical education	8
Choreographing meaningfulness: Boys’ experiences of dance in primary school	8
Students’ perceptions of physical education teachers’ (de)motivating styles via the circumplex approach: Differences by gender, grade level, experiences, intention to be active, and learning	8
Understanding (and extending) the conceptual boundaries of policy research in physical education: A scoping review	8
How is observed (de)motivating teaching associated with student motivation and device-based physical activity during physical education?	8
Public elementary school teachers’ positioning in teaching physical education to Japanese language learners	8
The dynamics of external provision in physical education	7
Cross-cultural comparison of fundamental movement skills in 9- to 10-year-old children from England and China	7
The effect of maturation on children's experience of physical education: Lessons learned from academy sport	7
Relationships between university instructors’ and preservice teachers’ content knowledge	7
Invisible on the field: Experiences of students with visual impairment in physical education in Nepal	7
“I want kids to have the same feeling as I do towards physical activity”: Acculturation of British preservice physical education teachers	7
Physical education in rural schools: A scoping review	7
The structural and convergent validity of the FMS² assessment tool among 8- to 12-year-old children	7
Learning to facilitate student voice in primary physical education	6
Principals’ attitudes and intentions toward supporting adapted physical education	6
Understanding Midwestern US Teacher Socialization during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Binary and non-binary trans students’ experiences in physical education: A systematic review	6
Examination of associations across transformational teacher leadership, motivational orientation, enjoyment, and boredom in physical education students	6
Growth trajectories and roles of expectancy, task value, and cost in middle-school physical education	5
Muslim students’ experiences of physical education: A scoping review	5
The Spectrum of Teaching Styles and models-based practice for physical education	5
Physical education in a post-COVID world: A blended-gamified approach	5
Perceived organizational support, marginalization, isolation, emotional exhaustion, and job satisfaction of PETE faculty members	5
From kindergarten to primary school – Physical education as a support for students’ transition	5
“We can do this”: Physical educators’ role breadth self-efficacy to be involved with CSPAPs from an occupational socialization perspective	5
Acute enhancement of executive functions through cognitively challenging physical activity games in elementary physical education	4
Informal learning contexts in the construction of physical education student teachers’ professional identity	4

Physical education teachers’ experiences of the meaning of feedback in PE	4
The acute effect of heart rate monitor projection on exercise effort in school students	4
‘Now I think you have been bewitching and bewildering me’: The utilisation of Aporia in Game-Based Approaches as a means of deconstructing and reconstructing power relations	4
Exploring teacher educator pedagogical decision-making about a combined pedagogy of social justice and meaningful physical education	4
Co-development of a gamified physical education movement competence intervention with school stakeholders	4
Engaging young people with disabilities in research about their experiences of physical education and sport: A scoping review of methodologies and methods	4
Why assessment in physical education is still problematic: A critical interpretive synthesis of physical education assessment literature	4
A systematic review exploring body image programmes and interventions in physical education	4
Psychological needs satisfaction in physical education predicts a positive development of motivation in early adolescence: A latent growth modeling study	4
Japanese elementary teachers’ experiences during online professional development regarding involvement of immigrant parents in physical education	3
Towards precarity? The occupational situation of physical education teachers in Poland	3
Teaching about planning in pre-service physical education teacher education: A collaborative self-study	3
A figurational analysis of secondary physical education gendered changing room procedures and practices in England	3
“I hate that education is a business”: Influence of occupational socialization on sport pedagogy doctoral students’ intended PETE programs	3
Growing voice: Insights from children's experiences of student voice practices in primary PE	3
Understanding US PETE Faculty Stress in the Sociopolitical Environment of Higher Education	3
Exploring the co-construction of an action research experience between a teacher educator and pre-service teachers	3
‘It is hard to establish boundaries’: Pupils’ and teachers’ perceptions of blurred lines between banter and bullying in secondary physical education	3
Teachers learning to use student voice in primary physical education – ready, steady, go!	3
Gendered grouping practices in secondary physical education in England: Listening to student voice	3
Formative assessment of motor learning through digital tools in physical education: A systematic literature review	3
Examining the relationships among preservice physical education teachers’ beliefs, emotions, and professional identity	3
Associations between physical educators’ appearance and sex and high school pupils’ cognitive performance and perceptions of teacher characteristics	3
Developing a framework for a games-based injury prevention exercise programme for post-primary (12–18 years) physical education class: A Delphi poll study	3
The purpose of primary physical education: The views of teacher educators	3
Physical education student teachers’ wellbeing during Covid-19: Resilience resources and challenges from school placement	3
Reviews in the field of sports pedagogy: A look behind the scenes	3
Is the development of physical literacy ubiquitous in high-quality physical education?	3