Predicting Student Psychomotor and Affective Outcomes in Physical Education Using Different Measures of Teaching Quality

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Abstract

Significant scholarly attention is currently paid to comparing different approaches for determining teaching quality. Classroom observations, student ratings, and teacher ratings are three widely employed such approaches. In this study, we bring together these approaches and examine their predictive validity in Physical Education lessons with respect to psychomotor and affective learning outcomes, which are often unattended in prior validation studies. Using data from 989 elementary-school students and their 51 teachers, and employing a gamut of quantitative analyses, we found classroom observations and student ratings to significantly relate to student psychomotor and affective learning outcomes, whereas the same was not true for teacher ratings. We consider the implications of these findings for designing systems for examining teaching quality.

Authors

• Charalambos Y. Charalambous, University of Cyprus

• Ermis Kyriakides, University of Cyprus

• Niki Tsangaridou, University of Cyprus

• Leonidas Kyriakides, University of Cyprus