Physical education teachers’ concerns towards teaching

Abstract

McBride’s; Mc Bride (1993). The TCQ-PE: An adaptation of the Teacher Concerns Questionnaire instrument to a physical education setting. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 12, 188–196; TCQ-PE adaptation of the Teacher Concerns Questionnaire; George, A.A. (1978). Measuring self, task and impact concerns: A manual for use of the teacher concerns questionnaire University of Texas, R and D Center for Teacher Education, Austin, TX; was administered to samples of Belgian and British inservice and preservice physical educators to provide support for TCQ-PE as an appropriate determinant of physical educators’ concerns. The results of confirmatory factor analysis reveal that neither the Belgian nor British data predict the TCQ-PE model and that there may be a cultural context effect. Further analysis of the data modelled against previous factor structures; Boggess, T. E., McBride, R., & Griffey, D. C. (1985). The concerns of physical education student teachers: A developmental view. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 4, 202–211; McBride, R., Boggess, T. E., & Griffey, D. (1986). Concerns of inservice physical education teachers as compared with Fuller’s concern model. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 5, 149–156; Behets, D. (1990). Concerns of preservice physical education teachers. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 10, 66–75; Fung, L. (1993). Concerns among physical educators with varying years of teaching experience. The Physical Educator, 50 (8), 1–12; Meek, G. A. (1996) The TCQ with Preservice Physical Educators in Great Britain: being concerned about concerns. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 16, 20–29; of TCQ are also non-significant. The results are discussed in relation to decision criteria for the adaptation of TCQ-PE and teaching phase; in addition alternative research designs are proposed that may enhance the understanding of Fuller’s; Fuller, F. F. (1969). Concerns of teachers: a developmental conceptualisation. American Educational Research Journal, 6, 207–226; developmental conceptualisation of teacher concerns.