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Journal of Educational Psychology | 2008

Athletic classmates, physical self-concept, and free-time physical activity : A longitudinal study of frame of reference effects

Ulrich Trautwein; Erin Gerlach; Oliver Lüdtke

The systematic analysis of factors that promote or impede physical activity in children is an urgent task for educational researchers. The present study investigated the reciprocal relationship between physical self-concept, teacher-assigned grades in physical education classes, and free-time physical activity, and analyzed positive and negative consequences of being in a class with high class-average physical ability. Data from a large, representative sample of 1,095 preadolescents from 66 classrooms were examined within a longitudinal framework. Multilevel analyses showed that membership in a class with high class-average physical ability was associated with lower physical self-concept and free-time physical activity and highlighted the significant role of teacher-assigned grades in the development of physical self-concept and physical activity. Furthermore, as predicted, there were positive reciprocal effects between physical self-concept and physical activity levels.


Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science | 2015

Development and Validation of a Test Instrument for the Assessment of Basic Motor Competencies in Primary School

Christian Herrmann; Erin Gerlach; Harald Seelig

A central aim of Physical Education (PE) is the promotion of basic motor competencies (“Motorische Basiskompetenzen” [MOBAK]). These are the necessary prerequisites for developing a physically active lifestyle. Valid test instruments are needed for the evaluation of the effect of PE. For this purpose, we developed a test instrument for the assessment of basic motor competencies in first graders. We empirically investigated the construct validity of this MOBAK test instrument in a study (N = 317, M = 7.0 years, girls: n = 173, boys: n = 144). The exploratory factor analysis shows a two factorial structure (locomotion, object control), which is confirmed in a confirmatory factor analysis (CFI = .96, RMSEA = .036, WRMR = .65). In subsequent analyses, we were able to demonstrate that the calculation of a factor sum value for each factor is statistically valid, the factorial structure is the same for boys and girls (χ2 [6] = 6.95, p = .33), and no differential item functioning exists. The MOBAK test instrument is sufficient for the test-theoretical requirements and is thus suitable for the evaluation of the effect of PE.


Sport Education and Society | 2014

Youths with Migration Backgrounds and Their Experiences of Physical Education: An Examination of Three Cases.

Dean Barker; Natalie Barker-Ruchti; Markus Gerber; Erin Gerlach; S. Sattler; Uwe Pühse

While understanding young people has never been easy, migration trends make it increasingly difficult. Many classrooms have become culturally heterogeneous and teachers are often faced with pupils with diverse linguistic and cultural heritages. Current scholarship suggests that as a discipline, physical education has not adapted to this diversity. In fact, commentators have suggested that physical education alienates pupils from minority groups and that traditional practices work to maintain cultural difference. The broad objective of this paper is to provide insights into how physical education intersects with biographies shaped by migration. Drawing from a case study investigation, this paper presents interview data from three youths with migration backgrounds living in a German-speaking region of Switzerland. The cases were selected because they highlight various ways in which physical education (PE) comes to make sense for adolescents. The key arguments that we develop are that ethnicity often works at an implicit level in PE, that young people experience the effects of migration backgrounds in diverse ways, and that migrants themselves support official educational discourses that work to disadvantage people with migration backgrounds. A key implication is that in a cultural milieu in which generalisations are normal and sometimes considered desirable, both researchers and practitioners need to be wary of racialising discourses. As an alternative, it is suggested that focusing on individual processes can improve the conceptualisation and implementation of physical education pedagogies.


Zeitschrift Fur Sozialpsychologie | 2007

Referenzgruppeneffekte im Sportunterricht

Erin Gerlach; Ulrich Trautwein; Oliver Lüdtke

Zusammenfassung: Der big-fish-little-pond effect beschreibt das Phanomen, dass vergleichbar leistungsstarke Schulerinnen und Schuler in leistungsstarkeren Lerngruppen infolge sozialer Vergleiche niedrigere Fahigkeitsselbstkonzepte ausbilden als in Gruppen mit einem niedrigeren mittleren Leistungsniveau. In der vorliegenden Studie wird gepruft, ob dieser Effekt auch im Hinblick auf das sportbezogene Selbstkonzept zu finden ist. In einer langsschnittlich angelegten Studie wurde eine reprasentative Stichprobe von 1185 Schulerinnen und Schulern in der Grundschule (3. Klasse) und der Sekundarstufe I (6. Klasse) mit einem motorischen Test und per Fragebogen untersucht. In Mehrebenenanalysen konnte ein negativer Effekt der durchschnittlichen Sportleistung einer Klasse auf das sportbezogene Selbstkonzept der Schuler nachgewiesen werden, der auch noch nach dem Ubergang in die Sekundarstufe I andauerte. Die Konfrontation mit sportlichen Mitschulern hat demnach persistente negative Effekte auf das sportbezogene Selb...


Archive | 2007

Referenzgruppeneffekte im Sportunterricht. Kurz- und langfristig negative Effekte von sportlichen Klassenkameraden auf das Selbstkonzept

Erin Gerlach; Ulrich Trautwein; Oliver Lüdtke

Zusammenfassung: Der big-fish-little-pond effect beschreibt das Phanomen, dass vergleichbar leistungsstarke Schulerinnen und Schuler in leistungsstarkeren Lerngruppen infolge sozialer Vergleiche niedrigere Fahigkeitsselbstkonzepte ausbilden als in Gruppen mit einem niedrigeren mittleren Leistungsniveau. In der vorliegenden Studie wird gepruft, ob dieser Effekt auch im Hinblick auf das sportbezogene Selbstkonzept zu finden ist. In einer langsschnittlich angelegten Studie wurde eine reprasentative Stichprobe von 1185 Schulerinnen und Schulern in der Grundschule (3. Klasse) und der Sekundarstufe I (6. Klasse) mit einem motorischen Test und per Fragebogen untersucht. In Mehrebenenanalysen konnte ein negativer Effekt der durchschnittlichen Sportleistung einer Klasse auf das sportbezogene Selbstkonzept der Schuler nachgewiesen werden, der auch noch nach dem Ubergang in die Sekundarstufe I andauerte. Die Konfrontation mit sportlichen Mitschulern hat demnach persistente negative Effekte auf das sportbezogene Selb...


Zeitschrift Fur Sportpsychologie | 2006

Selbstkonzepte und Bezugsgruppeneffekte

Erin Gerlach

Zusammenfassung. Der Beitrag befasst sich mit Selbstkonzepten von Kindern in Abhangigkeit vom sozialen Bezugsrahmen. Anhand einer langsschnittlichen Untersuchung uber drei Messzeitpunkte mit etwa 1000 Heranwachsenden, die den Wechsel von der Primar- zur Sekundarschule im Untersuchungsdesign enthalt, wird zum ersten der Einfluss dieses okologischen Ubergangs untersucht und zum zweiten die Abhangigkeit des sportbezogenen Selbstkonzepts vom Leistungsniveau der unmittelbaren Bezugsgruppe analysiert. Wahrend sich das schulische und tendenziell das soziale Selbstkonzept beim Ubergang verandern, ist das sportbezogene Selbstkonzept wenig beeinflusst. Daruber hinaus konnte der so genannte “Fischteicheffekt” auch in der physischen Domane repliziert werden. Je hoher das Leistungsniveau einer Schulklasse im motorischen Bereich ist, desto starker leidet darunter das sportbezogene Selbstkonzept.


European Journal for Sport and Society | 2013

Swiss youths, migration and integrative sport : a critical-constructive reading of popular discourse

Dean Barker; Natalie Barker-Ruchti; Markus Gerber; Erin Gerlach; S. Sattler; Manfred Max Bergman; Uwe Pühse

Abstract This paper critically interrogates widespread assumptions pertaining to the integrative function of sporting involvement in Switzerland. It focuses specifically on young people living in a culturally diverse area and how they make use of discursive variations of the integrative sport text. Interview material draws attention to four main sub-texts that frame sport as: a pedagogical tool, a site of interpersonal exchange, a method of catharsis, and as an apolitical activity without relevance to ethnicity. It is argued that these sub-texts: (1) are embedded within broader culturalist discourse and, (2) either support divisive social relations or do little to challenge them. Both instances suggest that changes are necessary to the way sport is ‘produced’ in discourse if it is to positively influence ethnic relations.


International journal of physical education | 2011

International Approaches to Health-Oriented Physical Education - Local Health Debates and Differing Conceptions of Health

Uwe Pühse; Dean Barker; Wolf-Dietrich Brettschneider; Anne Karina Feldmeth; Erin Gerlach; Louise McCuaig; Thomas L. McKenzie; Markus Gerber


Sportwissenschaft | 2015

Motorische Basiskompetenzen in der Grundschule

Christian Herrmann; Erin Gerlach; Harald Seelig


Psychological test and assessment modeling | 2015

What influences motivation in Physical Education? A multilevel approach for identifying climate determinants of achievement motivation

Benjamin Niederkofler; Christian Herrmann; Sara Seiler; Erin Gerlach

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Dean Barker

University of Gothenburg

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Andreas Bund

University of Luxembourg

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