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Implications of Relations among High School Physical Education Students' Achievement and Implicit Beliefs about Knowledge Learning, and Conceptions of Ability
Academic journal article from Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, Vol. 78, No. 1
Beginning of article
While the critical role of knowledge in motor (e.g., Allard, 1993) and physical education (PE; e.g., Hare & Graber, 2000) performance is well documented, insight is scant into the role that students' theories about what knowing is and how they come to know (Hofer & Pintrich, 1997) influence their achievement in PE. Links exist between such beliefs--that knowledge is simple (versus integrated) and certain (versus changing), that ability is fixed (rather than acquired), and that learning is quick not gradual--and performance in numerous academic domains. Related constructs studied in PE include misconceptions (Dodds et al., 2001) and having either fixed or incremental ability …
