Papers by Donetta Cothran
Designing effective programs
Classroom teachers’ efficacy in teaching healthy behaviour content
Teacher Development, Aug 1, 2011
This study, grounded in Self-Efficacy Theory, investigated classroom teachers’ self-efficacy chan... more This study, grounded in Self-Efficacy Theory, investigated classroom teachers’ self-efficacy changes related to teaching healthy behaviour content after participating in ongoing workshops. Participants were 50 male and female teachers at the primary (n = 17) and secondary (n = 33) levels from two schools in one Native American community. Teacher participants completed two previously validated teaching efficacy instruments. Results showed
Teacher beliefs and efficacy
Teacher Evaluations of Standardized Physical Education Curricula
The Physical Educator, Feb 15, 2012
Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research, Apr 20, 2017
Patriarchal Consciousness: Middle School Students' and Teachers' Perspectives of Motivational Practices
Sport Education and Society, Oct 1, 1998
... Conversely, when teachers' actions perpetuate a patriarchal view that fosters male d... more ... Conversely, when teachers' actions perpetuate a patriarchal view that fosters male dominance, female students are adversely affected. Theoretically, a basic tenet of educational systems is equal opportunity for all students. ...
Building Bridges to Student Engagement: Communicating Respect and Care for Students in Urban High Schools
Research Square (Research Square), Aug 18, 2022
Childhood is a critical developmental time of nutrition and physical activity patterns, yet littl... more Childhood is a critical developmental time of nutrition and physical activity patterns, yet little is known about what children know and believe. Even less is known about non-majority cultures like American Indian youth. The purpose of this study was to explore American Indian students' understandings of nutrition and physical activity. Ninety American Indian students in grades 3-12 were interviewed. The interview included an 8-point body size chart. Numerical data were analyzed via t-test statistics while a constant comparison process and analysis was used for the interview data. Students rated approximately 85% of students in Category 5 or smaller on the scale while placing 60% of adults at or above that size. There was a general trend of a larger body type for boys seen as healthy compared to that for girls. Students generally believed that their classmates were larger than the healthy body size. For students, a healthy body was the result of compliance with "eat right and exercise" rules. They exhibited little understanding of nutrition or physical activity and there were few developmental differences in understanding. Health was a corporeal concept and violators of the eat right and exercise rules were seen as lazy. Students held limited, narrow, and corporeal focused notions of health that focused on simple rules. People who violated the rules were described as "lazy", a concept that seemed to underlie multiple constructs and a nding that holds true in other investigations. Students also reported few adult role models, a topic that should be explored more with expanded family groups to better represent the multigenerational (e.g. grandparents, uncles, aunts) family housing common in the community. The ndings are limited to a single American Indian community and a mixed design of relatively small numbers. This addition to the literature from a non-majority cultural group expands our knowledge of student perspectives on health. These ndings can be used to create more effective curricula and interventions. Schools need more effective, but also alternately framed approaches that promote broader views of health as part of total wellness.
Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, Apr 1, 1998
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Teaching and Teacher Education, Jul 1, 1997
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“And I Hope You See Things That Startle You”: What Students Can Teach Us About Physical Education
Kinesiology review, Feb 1, 2013
Current conceptualizations of student learning recognize the active, constructivist, and mutually... more Current conceptualizations of student learning recognize the active, constructivist, and mutually influential nature of student-teacher interactions in the shared class environment. Since students and teachers enter the classroom with potentially different prior experiences and current beliefs, their interpretation of class events may not be the same. Those differences may lead to misunderstandings and conflict; therefore, it is important to examine the student perspective on physical education. This paper offers two examples—curricular values and teaching styles—of student-teacher similarities and differences, and how those similarities and differences impact what does and does not happen in physical education class. A consistent theme across both examples is the importance of both achievement and nonachievement factors, and suggestions are offered for how physical education might better incorporate both factors to increase student learning and student and teacher enjoyment.
Students' perspectives on student behavior in physical education classes
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, Mar 1, 2001
Scheduled for Research Consortium Poster Session. Pedagogy II, Friday, March 30, 2001, 2:00 PM - ... more Scheduled for Research Consortium Poster Session. Pedagogy II, Friday, March 30, 2001, 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM, Students' Perspectives on Student Behavior in Physical Education Classes. Donetta Cothran, Indiana University, IN ...
Curricular Change in Physical Education: Success Stories from the Front Line
Sport Education and Society, Mar 1, 2001
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Chapter I of this paper introduced the problem of volleyball skill tests as a predictor of ac tua... more Chapter I of this paper introduced the problem of volleyball skill tests as a predictor of ac tua l game performance. This topic was explored with a discussion of its significance, hypothesi s , assumptions , delimitations, and limitations . I n addition, a list of key definitions was provided. Chapter IT desc ribes a review of the literature rel e vant to this problem. CHAPTPR TT RRVIRW OF REr .ATED LTTE RA1'URP
Research Note: From the preface: The purpose of this investigation was to address the gap in prof... more Research Note: From the preface: The purpose of this investigation was to address the gap in professional development literature related to mentoring, specifically as it applies to nontraditional cases, beyond new teacher induction. In particular, we examined teachers\u27 preferences on mentoring characteristics and practices to determine whether nontraditional mentoring (owing to grade level changes, subject area changes, and newly adopted school district curricula) would be consistent with or contradict models of mentoring based primarily on the induction of new teachers. This report is part of a larger investigation that explored a curricular change initiative in a large urban school district and is a companion to another article published in JTPE about the same program (see McCaughtry, Kulinna, Cothran, Martin, & Faust, 2005). This report takes a more phenomenological approach to the investigation of mentoring as we report only teachers\u27 mentoring preferences. We wanted to sh...
Students' and teachers' values in physical education
Classroom Teachers, Native American Students, and Classroom Activity Breaks
Schools have been identified as one intervention site to address negative health trends in physic... more Schools have been identified as one intervention site to address negative health trends in physical inactivity and obesity. Additional quality physical education is one way to address those trends. Another possibility is to have classroom teachers incorporate more physical ...
Students' experiences with and perceptions of teaching styles= Styles pédagogiques: expériences et perceptions des étudiants
Journal of research and …, 2000
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BMJ Open, 2021
ObjectivesTo gather the perspectives of collegiate instructors regarding how concussion is manage... more ObjectivesTo gather the perspectives of collegiate instructors regarding how concussion is managed within the college classroom. To introduce the themes surrounding collegiate return-to-learn (RTL) and the classroom management of students with concussion.DesignQualitative grounded theory.SettingLarge, public university in the Midwest.ParticipantsTwenty-three college instructors participated in a private, semistructured, audio-recorded, one-on-one interview. Participants included 12 males and 11 females. Interview recordings were transcribed verbatim, followed by an iterative process of open-coding and axial-coding, performed by two researchers.ResultsThree themes emerged from the coded data: (1) awareness—external knowledge of concussion and previous experiences, (2) legitimacy—medical note provided and no note provided and (3) accommodating the student—instructor’s role and feasibility of the accommodation. Psychosocial factors such as small class sizes, graduate-level students and...
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