OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy is 6. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Physical education podcasts: a thriving community of practice or a one-way mode of communication?	52
Enriching organisational design for games: the case of badminton in physical education	41
Merging observational and interview data to study and improve the adaptability of the products of didactic engineering to ordinary teaching in physical education	31
The influence of online physical activity interventions on children and young people’s engagement with physical activity: a systematic review	23
Replay the game and teach for understanding: exploring the use of video tagging in an invasion games unit	23
Reimagining school-university partnerships in physical education: a collaborative design to approach democratic professionalism	22
The lived experience of sport education: a web of interconnected experiences	19
Mixed-methods approaches to learning strategies and self-regulation in Physical Education: a literature review	18
Exploring practitioner inquiry among health and physical education teachers: insights from teachers’ perspectives	18
Facilitating loose parts play with elementary school staff: professional development and implementation from the perspective of the facilitator	18
Producing the well and skilled body: a critical discourse analysis of health and physical education curriculum policy in Aotearoa New Zealand	18
Positive youth development through sport and physical education: a systematic review of empirical research conducted with grade 5 to 12 children and youth	17
Intervention fidelity: multiple strategies to design, implement, and assess mastery motivational climate behavioral interventions	16
The role of artefacts in developing competences in physical education: exploring students’ experience and knowledge built in action	15
Student choice and barriers to physical activity in Latino boys in the REACH after-school program	15
Coach as youth development specialist: developing a TPSR-based coach training program and examining participants’ experiences	15
Effects of a unit of circus activities through a hybridization of cooperative learning and self-made material: a students, teachers and parents combined perspective	14
Transforming physical education: an analysis of context and resources that support curriculum transformation and enactment	13
Urban–rural differences in TGfU-based physical education at Taiwanese primary schools from the perspective of cultural capital	13
Chess training for improving executive functions and invasion game tactical behavior of college student athletes: a preliminary investigation	13
deportigualízate: enacting critical intersectional feminist pedagogy in Spanish PESTE	13
Health-based physical education in an elementary school: effects on physical self-concept, motivation, fitness and physical activity	12
Developing social and school facilitators for a positive school transition through a Sport Education and Service-Learning programme	12
Gender preference of conceptions toward caloric-balanced living	11
Teachers’ perceptions of implementing sport education in Saudi middle schools	11

A pre-longitudinal screen of performance in an integrated assessment of throwing and catching competence	11
Two teachers’ positioning toward Meaningful PE: agency, sensemaking, and ownership	11
A qualitative examination on the preparation of preservice physical education teachers for assessment in secondary teaching methods courses in the US	10
Healthy lifestyle, physical education, and sports for Saudi women	10
Exploring students experiences of secondary school Physical Education in England	10
Everyone is welcome under the big top: a multiple case study on circus arts instruction in physical education	10
Teachers’ experiences of enacting pedagogical models and models-based practice: a systematic mixed study review	10
Generalization and maintenance of skill trials from physical education to recess in elementary school	10
Developing embodied competence while becoming a PE teacher: PETE students’ embodied experiences and reflections after micro-teaching	9
Exploring coping strategies in physical education. A qualitative case study	9
Reflection and reflective practice in high-performance sport coaching: a heuristic device	9
Critical application of TGfU in sports coaching	9
Sport pedagogy and feminism: what is known and what is missing? Findings from a scoping review	9
Moving Well-Being Well: a process evaluation of a physical literacy-based intervention in Irish primary schools	9
Developing a love for playing games: a clarification of why Digital Video Games Approach is not Gamification	9
Early childhood physical activity parenting and sport club participation as predictors of perceived motor competence – a three-year longitudinal study	8
How does physical education teacher education matter? A methodological approach to understanding transitions from PETE to school physical education	8
Exploring pedagogies of embodiment in physical education teacher education	8
The othering of trans, inter and non-binary students in physical education: an intersectional perspective	7
The difficulty of policy transfer in physical education: the failure of UNESCO’s Quality Physical Education in South Africa	7
Emancipation or simulation? The pedagogy of ignorance and action research in PETE	7
How physical education teachers are positioned in models scholarship: a scoping review	7
Chinese students’ experiences of ‘high-stakes’ assessment: the role of fitness testing	7
The student's experience of teacher support in French vocational high-school classes with difficulties in school engagement in physical education: interest of mixed methods research	7
Mapping the physical literacy controversy: an analysis of key actors within scholarly literature	7
How ball games experts legitimate ball games knowledge within Swedish physical education teacher education	7
The association between physical education and academic achievement in other curriculum learning areas: A review of literature	7
Synthesis and literature review of different mixed methods designs in pedagogical research in physical education	7
The suffering of students in physical education. Unsettling experiences and situational conditions	7
Cognitively enriched physical activity may foster motor competence and executive function as early as preschool age: a pilot trial	7
Rethinking pedagogical practices with care-experienced young people: lessons from a sport-based programme analysed through a Freirean lens	6
Signature pedagogies of teacher education in physical education: a scoping review	6
Digital technology in game-based approaches: video tagging in football in PE	6
How do we teach about ethnic and cultural diversity in PETE? A discourse analysis of interviews from Norway, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada	6
Exploring elementary classroom teachers' practices of movement integration: the ten MI styles	6
Coaching in the shadows: critically examining the unintended (non)influence of pedagogical practice	6
Fit for the job? How corporeal expectations shape physical education teachers’ understandings of content, pedagogy, and the purposes of physical education	6
PE at Home: keeping the ‘E’ in PE while home-schooling during a pandemic	6
‘They don’t have bad intentions.’ The disciplinary power of heteronormative communication in upper secondary Polish physical education – a case study	6
Initial fidelity of a powered mobility intervention: a case report	6
Game performance assessment instrument in physical education: a systematic review from 2015 to 2024	6
Students’ perceptions of fitness testing in physical education across primary, secondary, and pre-university school levels: a motivational profiles perspective	6
Social and emotional learning for underserved children through a sports-based youth development program grounded in teaching personal and social responsibility	6
Towards an integration of physical activity and environmental awareness: analysis of students’ activity in physical education	6