Background A high level of participant skill is influential in determining the outcome of many
sports. Thus, tests assessing skill outcomes in sport are commonly used by coaches and …

Background: For many years, skill learning has been an important component of primary
school physical education (PE) with most lessons focused on the teaching of fundamental …

When observing skill and determining the competency of children and youth physical
education teachers often focus on the coordination dynamics within the individual in the …

Background Key factors limiting patients with lower extremity amputations to achieve
maximal functional capabilities are falls and fear of falling. A task-specific fall prevention …

Background: The application of a social theory of learning and the notion of situated learning
as a theoretical basis for understanding students' learning in PE is broadly recognised …

This paper will explore how game-play in video games as well as game centered
approaches in physical education (PE) such as Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) …

How we learn motor skills has always been of interest to physical educators. Contemporary
conceptual frameworks about motor skill learning draw from earlier behavioral and cognitive …

Optimising motoric performance is complex and multifactorial in nature. A critical demand on
top-level performers is their ability to cope when executing motor skills under conditions of …

This chapter will provide a brief overview of the learning theory connectivism and will show
how, in an education landscape now saturated with digital technologies, it continues to offer …

Over the last 30 years, traditional skill-based game teaching models have gradually been
supplemented by instruction under an inclusive banner of Game Centred Learning (GCL) …