Adapted physical education teachers' attitudes toward curricular outcomes for physical education

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Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Health
Department Exercise & Sport Science
Author Lovings, Tacara M. D.
Title Adapted physical education teachers' attitudes toward curricular outcomes for physical education
Date 2014-12
Description Within the field of adapted physical education, there is a lack of knowledge about who is delivering services and what attitudes they hold for curricular outcomes. The purpose of this study was to discover current adapted physical educators' attitudes towards curricular outcomes for physical education. The teacher's attitude and orientation towards specific topics and activities in physical education have the ability to influence students' physical activity level and overall physical literacy. The data indicated that adapted physical educators who teach students with mild and moderate as well as severe disabilities placed importance on all physical education domains, but they placed more importance on social development and physical activity and fitness followed by selfactualization and motor skill development, respectively. We find that adapted physical educators differ slightly from previously studied preservice educators and general physical educators who placed more importance solely on the domain of physical activity and fitness. Interestingly, adapted physical educators reported that most of their instructional time was spent on motor skill development despite the fact that they ranked this domain as the fourth out of five in terms of importance.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Certification; Content; Highly qualified; Years of experience
Dissertation Name Master of Science
Language eng
Rights Management Copyright © Tacara M. D. Lovings 2014
Format Medium application/pdf
Format Extent 328,203 bytes
Identifier etd3/id/3364
ARK ark:/87278/s6g1984q
Setname ir_etd
ID 196928
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6g1984q