Javier Fernandez-Rio

University of Oviedo | UNIOVI · Department of Education Sciences

Se combina la enseñanza del Pickleball con el modelo de Aprendizaje Cooperativo que es un método pedagógico que fomenta las habilidades sociales, el trabajo en equipo. El libro incluye: 1 Un recorrido por la historia y las reglas del Pickleball. 2 Estrategias de intervención docente basadas en evidencia científica. 3 Una secuenciación didáctica de...

Situados en un contexto de iniciación a la investigación en educación física (EF), el objetivo principal de este artículo es presentar de manera básica y sencilla algunas claves que pueden guiar y facilitar el diseño metodológico de estudios de investigación. Para ello, el documento se estructura en dos partes. En primer lugar, se plantean algunas...

Purpose: The meaningful physical education (PE) approach aims to prioritize meaningful experiences for and with learners. However, most of the previous literature has been produced in a particular context: English-speaking countries. Thus, the goal of this study was to analyze positive experiences in Spanish PE using this approach. Method: A qualit...

RESUMEN La Pedagogía de la Educación Física a lo largo de los últimos 75 años ha sufrido una importante evolución. Usando la novela de Charles Dickens Cuento de Navidad como hilo conductor, en el presente artículo se hace un repaso a los planteamientos pedagógicos usados en España a lo largo de estos años. Así, nos visita el "fantasma de la navidad...

Llegados a este punto del libro, ya se conoce que desde sus orígenes el Modelo de Responsabilidad Personal y Social (MRPS; Hellison, 1973) es un planteamiento pedagógico de gran relevancia para proporcionar habilidades que contribuyan a la competencia social, la resolución de problemas, la autonomía y el sentido de futuro (Casey y Kirk, 2020). No o...

La evidencia científica demuestra que la educación afectivo-sexual tiene posibles beneficios en la salud sexual del alumnado, así como en la adquisición de actitudes de respeto hacia los demás. El objetivo de este estudio ha sido conocer la percepción del profesorado, respecto a la educación afectivo-sexual y su posible implementación como asignatu...

¿Quieres escribir y publicar tu primer artículo científico en el ámbito de la educación física, pero no sabes muy bien por dónde empezar? ¡Intentaremos ayudarte desde aquí! Nuestro objetivo es que alcances tu meta. Sin perder rigor académico, pero bajo un enfoque prioritariamente didáctico, te acompañamos en este desafío que comienza al enfrentarse...

The use of digital technologies to support learning in physical education (PE) has grown in recent years. However, little is known about what teachers think when PE meets technology in the digital era. The purpose of this descriptive study was to use a carefully constructed, face-validated, and pilot-tested web survey to identify PE teachers’ willi...

Este protocolo de revisão objetiva evidenciar os impactos da Aprendizagem Cooperativa (AC) na Educação Física Escolar (EFE). Tem como diretrizes e procedimentos metodológicos o referencial de revisão e o checklist do protocolo The Best Evidence Medical Education(BEME). Será realizada uma busca de publicações, seleção e extração de dados de artigos...

The aim of this study was to assess the effects on the three Emotional Intelligence dimensions of an intervention of the pedagogical model of Cooperative Learning in Physical Education. A total of 29 students from a public Primary School in the southeast of Spain, with an average age of 11.20 (± .41 years), participated. The instrument used was the...

Bunker e Thorpe (1982) desenvolveram o Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU), traduzido como modelo de Ensino dos Jogos para Compreensão, como uma nova abordagem ao ensino do desporto centrada no jogo e no estudante/jogador com o objetivo de ultrapassar as limitações encontradas nas práticas tradicionais que utilizavam situações descontextualizad...

Football is considered the most popular sport among adolescents, but most do not meet the World Health Organization's recommendation of 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) per day. Can regular football practice help to meet this recommendation? This research aimed to assess the physical activity levels of players in a high-p...

Models-based Practice is an organising centre for program planning and development in physical education. The four key aspects of Models-based Practice (themes, variation, lengthier units, student-centred learning), concretised through the adoption of a diverse set of pedagogical models, allow Models-based Practice to represent a concrete and susta...

El Parkour es una disciplina deportiva que, introducida dentro del currículo educativo, ofrece una herramienta atractiva y motivante desde la que potenciar el desarrollo de la coordinación motriz del alumnado. El presente estudio planteó dos objetivos: 1. diseñar y validar un Test Indoor de Parkour para ser usado en el aula de Educación Física y 2....

Se plantearon dos objetivos: (O1) analizar los efectos de una intervención de artes marciales sobre las actitudes hacia la violencia; (O2) Señalar estrategias pedagógicas útiles para este tipo de programas. Se diseñó un estudio de caso dentro de un proceso de investigación-acción participativa. Participaron siete estudiantes de educación primaria (...

A recent systematic review reported positive associations between parents and children's physical activity participation. Moreover, parents' perceptions of the importance and value of physical activity can influence their children's participation in it. Our aim in this study was to develop and validate an instrument to assess parents' perceptions o...

Purpose: The goals of this study were: (1) to assess students’ physical activity levels in a sport education season according to the phases of the model, adjusted for body mass index; (2) to uncover the contribution of the phases of the model to the World Health Organization recommendations; (3) to understand its impact in students with overweight/...

La Educación Física en España ha sufrido una enorme evolución a lo largo de la historia y su situación actual como materia curricular también se explica a partir de los sistemas y escuelas gimnásticas de los siglos XIX y XX, pero también como consecuencia de 53 leyes educativas en 54 años. Fruto de esta amalgama de influencias, en la actualidad se...

The choice of optional physical education could be conditioned by personal elements, such as goals or motivation, or contextual, such as perceived teaching behaviour. The aims of this study were to analyse the differences between students who chose (or not) Physical Education and to determine to what extent goal orientations, motivational regulatio...

Existen diferencias con respecto a la conceptualización, terminología, características, metodología o incluso a los comportamientos asociados del alumnado con altas capacidades. Esta incertidumbre y desconocimiento dificulta la atención adaptada e individualizada a la forma de aprender de cada niño o niña en el ámbito educativo, y por tanto, de su...

Background: Fidelity is an essential component of research, theory and practice in pedagogical models in physical education (Hastie and Casey 2014). Reporting fidelity data has been recognized as a way to know whether student learning outcomes can be attributed to the practical architectures of pedagogical models (Casey and Kirk 2020). However, res...

Este artículo de investigación que planteó un objetivo fundamental: usar el dominio B "creación de un ambiente propicio para el aprendizaje" del documento oficial "Estándares de la Profesión Docente Marco para la Buena Enseñanza" para obtener información desde la perspectiva del alumnado de una muestra amplia de educación secundaria de diferentes r...

The aim of this study was to adapt and validate the Spanish version of the Cooperative Learning Scale (CAT) for Portuguese and Brazilian higher education students. The study included 493 higher education students aged 17-45 years from a university in northern Portugal and 414 Brazilian university students aged 14-52 years from different universitie...

Esta investigación planteó un objetivo fundamental: usar el dominio B "creación de un ambiente propicio para el aprendizaje" del documento oficial "Estándares de la Profesión Docente Marco para la Buena Enseñanza" para obtener información desde la perspectiva del alumnado de una muestra amplia de educación secundaria de diferentes regiones de Chile...

The aim of this study was to adapt and validate the Spanish version of the Cooperative Learning Scale (CAT) for Portuguese and Brazilian higher education students. The study included 493 higher education students aged 17-45 years from a university in northern Portugal and 414 Brazilian university students aged 14-52 years from different universitie...

The aim of this study was to adapt and validate the Spanish version of the Cooperative Learning Scale (CAT) for Portuguese and Brazilian higher education students. The study included 493 higher education students aged 17-45 years from a university in northern Portugal and 414 Brazilian university students aged 14-52 years from different universitie...

Resumen. Ante la necesidad de abordar de manera eficaz los desafíos de la inclusión en Educación Física, se plantearon en el siguiente estudio los siguientes objetivos: (1) analizar la percepción de los futuros docentes de Educación Física sobre las potencialidades de los juegos tradicionales para el trabajo inclusivo y (2) conocer la valoración de...

The Self-Determination Theory argues that individuals are optimally motivated when their three Basic Psychological Needs (BPNs) are satisfied, which can be influenced by the learning environment created by the teachers. Student-centered frameworks are permeating worldwide. Thus, the study aimed to evaluate the effects of pedagogical models-based in...

Introduction This study aimed to determine the body accelerations (BA) profile of the judo contest of the male and female weight divisions and to ascertain the involvement of the vertical, mediolateral and anteroposterior axes in it. Methods Forty-eight male and forty-eight female national and international level athletes (some of them medalists i...

Why are more hours of physical education (PE) per week needed? This historical demand of PE teachers has not gone unnoticed by the media, but what message is being conveyed? To answer this question, two study goals were set: (1) to systematically examine the content of press reports in the main Spanish media regarding the increase in PE hours, and...

La presente tesis doctoral aborda en profundidad el modelo pedagógico de educación física relacionada con la salud en la educación primaria en diferentes contextos y situaciones. Dicho modelo, se considera en la actualidad emergente, y existe aún escasa literatura científica del mismo. Además, la mayor parte de las investigaciones realizadas en nue...

Background Research on pedagogical models in physical education has exponentially increased over the last two decades [Casey, A., and D. Kirk. 2020. Models-Based Practice in Physical Education. London: Routledge]. Moreover, several literature reviews on the effectiveness of the different pedagogical models have been conducted. Due to the large amou...

Diversas organizaciones y docentes anónimos vienen reclamando un mayor número de horas de clase de Educación Física de manera obligatoria, sin embargo, diferentes estudios señalan que un porcentaje significativo del alumnado considera negativas sus experiencias en las clases de esta asignatura. Por tanto, parece que es más una cuestión de calidad q...

The COVID-19 pandemic caused drastic changes in education, which had to adapt to changing scenarios (online, face-to-face, hybrid teaching). Within physical education (PE), strategies such as ‘do not use or share equipment’ were proposed to avoid infections. These strategies fit with an emerging pedagogical model called the Self-made Material Model...

Purpose: This paper aimed to examine moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) levels in physical education. Method: A review of reviews was conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. The screening process, data extraction, assessment of the risk of bias, and analysis of the r...

La salud siempre ha sido un tema de especial interés para la humanidad. Buscando una forma efectiva de integrarla en el aula ha surgido el modelo pedagógico de educación física relacionado con la salud. El objetivo de este estudio ha sido realizar una revisión sistemática de toda la literatura científica que ha habido del modelo desde que Haerens e...

The present study aimed to analyze the impact of maintaining or not social distancing on the satisfaction of basic psychological needs and the intention to be physically active of Primary Education students in Physical Education. A quasi-experimental design with pre-test-post-test measures was used. A total of 149 students (72 boys, 77 girls; 9-12...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to analyze the network structure of physical activity, frequency, depressive, and affective symptoms in people under home isolation due to COVID-19. Method: A longitudinal study was conducted in two phases (beginning (March 19, 2020) and end of home confinement (April 8, 2020)). The sample consisted of 579 pa...

Background: The interactions between behavior, environment and personal factors are the basis of the Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura, A. 1986. Social Foundations of Thought and Action. NJ: Prentice Halls). Within this theory, students’ behavior and motivation toward an activity is dependent on their feelings, thoughts and beliefs (Lodewyck and Pyb...

Teacher training programmes and physical education activities were strikingly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, this study attempted to uncover (i) the systems factors that influenced the teaching practice of 28 preservice teachers during school placement, and how different multi-system interacting influences impacted on (ii) predomi...

Pedagogical models have been described as suitable for promoting positive outcomes in the physical domain of learning. Is this enough in the battle against sedentary lifestyles? To answer this question, a systematic search of four scientific literature databases was conducted. The articles were included if they met the following criteria: (1) inter...

Resumen Los modelos pedagógicos pueden favorecer la consecución de objetivos relevantes de la Educación Física, como la satisfacción de las Necesidades Psicológicas Básicas y su relación con la consolidación de hábitos saludables. El objetivo de la presente experiencia es mostrar el desarrollo de un proyecto de Educación física relacionada con la s...

The main goal of this study was to examine the links between class cohesion and teachers’ relatedness teaching style with students’ relatedness needs, motivation, and positive and negative outcomes in Physical Education. A total of 1294 students 10–18 years old (M = 14.40, SD = 1.99), 613 males (M = 14.48, SD = 1.95) and 681 females (M = 14.33, SD...

Esta investigación analizó la influencia de un programa de mindfulness en el entorno escolar dentro del horario curricular a una población de adolescentes gracias a la percepción del alumnado, de sus familiares y de la tutora y jefa de estudios. Por ello, se realizó una investigación cualitativa en la que se realizaron diferentes entrevistas indivi...

Background: Previous studies show contradictory results regarding the bidirectional association between physical activity and nighttime sleep. The objective of the present study was to add knowledge to these possible relationships using autoregressive models. Method: 214 adolescents (117 boys and 97 girls), with a mean age of 13.31 years agreed...

The goal of this study was to assess the effects of a long-term Cooperative Learning programme in students’ basic psychological needs and their intention to be physically active. A total of 109 students (12-14 years old) enrolled in four different Year 8 classes of Secondary Education agreed to participate. Students were organised into an experimen...

Se trata de un libro teórico-práctico que describe, en un número limitado de páginas, cómo se pueden aplicar técnicas de aprendizaje cooperativo en un campo que promueve el trabajo individualista y donde nunca se han aplicado: la preparación de oposiciones al cuerpo de maestros de Educación Infantil. El libro comienza con un capítulo introductori...

Technology has been recently found to be an effective tool to deliver public health interventions. More specifically, the effects of interventions using apps to improve health have been targeted lately. The goal of the present study was to conduct a systematic review of systematic reviews to summarize the scientific evidence. Three research questio...

Based on the control-value theory, this study examined connections between the perceived in-class degree of cooperation and academic performance mediated through the students’ negative and positive emotions in physical education. Students (N = 620, 55.5% girls; Mage = 13.01, SD = 2.10) reported on their perceptions of the degree of cooperation and...

International reports show more positive academic and drop-out results in the neighbor Portugal than in Spain, but comparisons should be considered carefully. Data which reflect students’ own perceptions on pedagogical and psychological variables significant for learning are needed. The goal of this study was to compare two similar groups of studen...

The aim of this scientific note was to provide a research overview about cooperative learning in physical education. A literature search was conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. A total of 46 published articles from Web of Science (Social Science Citation Index a...

There is a lack of studies that examine the longitudinal relationship between physical activity (PA) and mental health with accelerometers in adolescent populations. The current study aimed to investigate whether changes in PA intensities and sedentary time (ST) are associated with mental health in a cohort of adolescents. 246 (130 boys, 116 girls)...

El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar el impacto de un programa gamificado en las clases de Educación Física sobre las regulaciones motivacionales y las calificaciones de los estudiantes de secundaria en comparación con un planteamiento tradicional de enseñanza. La muestra se compuso por los 102 estudiantes de 4.º de ESO (16.7 ± 0.43 años) de un...

The aim of this study was to assess the impact of a gamified programme in Physical Education classes on the motivational regulations and grades of secondary school students in comparison to a traditional teaching approach. The sample consisted of 102 students in the year 10 (4th year of secondary education) (16.7 ± 0.43 years old) from the same sch...

The purpose of this study was to assess the temporal day-today associations between physical activity and sleep in adolescents during a complete week. A total of 236 secondary education students (127 males, 109 females), age range 12-15 years, enrolled in 10 different high schools agreed to participate. They were asked to wear a GT3x accelerometer...

The aim of this study was to develop and validate a psychometrically-sound instrument to assess students’ perceptions about class cohesion. Two studies were conducted. In Study 1, four steps were established: (1) development of the Class Cohesion Questionnaire (CCQ); (2) item selection; (3) item compression; and (4) exploration of psychometric prop...

Las tecnologías están en constante evolución y la democratización de los vídeo juegos, de los sistemas de realidad virtual, realidad aumentada o de las herramientas de vídeos interactivos cuestionan nuestras prácticas de enseñanza y nos llevan a reconsiderar la forma de concebir experiencias inmersivas en lenguas extranjeras. Hoy, la inmersión cult...

Resumen El objetivo del presente estudio es describir una intervención educativa basada en el juego y gamificada en la obra literaria "El Alquimista" para la enseñanza del deporte de orientación, así como explorar las percepciones y el desarrollo de valores en los participantes durante y tras su participación en dicha intervención. Participaron un...

Despite the research exploring the benefits of using cooperative learning in secondary physical education, several research gaps still remain, namely, limited research on its effects on prosocial behaviours, the impact on adolescents as they grow up, and the lack of assessment of differently structured cooperative learning frameworks. The goal of t...

The aim was to expand the existing knowledge on adolescents’ body image and its connections with health (Body Mass Index, sleep activity), psychological (well-being, physical self-concept), and social (socio-economic status, diet) variables. 246 students (130 boys, 116 girls), age range 13-15 years, enrolled in 10 schools participated. Seven days/2...

Background Research has shown the positive connections between physical activity and health, and physical education has been shown to influence the motivation to participate in physical activities. Student-centred pedagogical models encouraging active learning may be capable of bringing about changes in girls’ physical activity. Objective The aim...

Purpose : The goal was twofold: (a) to analyze the evolution of sportspersonship attitudes and negative values along a learning unit using the contextualized sport alphabetization model and (b) to determine the associations between sportspersonship and self-determined motivation. Method : The study followed a preexperimental, cross-sectional design...

El estallido del brote del nuevo Coronavirus (COVID-19) ha provocado, en menos de 2 años, más de 4,9 millones de fallecimientos a nivel mundial. Se estima que durante el primer año de pandemia esta cifra se situó en 3 millones. Algunas de las medidas iniciales para luchar contra la propagación del virus consistieron en limitar los contactos sociale...

El objetivo principal del estudio fue analizar si existen diferencias en las tendencias de acción (asertiva, agresiva y de sumisión) de mujeres deportistas en función del tipo de deporte que practican (contacto, no contacto). Las investigaciones sugieren que las participantes en deportes en los que no hay contacto físico con el adversario muestran...

The goal of the study was to assess the effects of two instructional frameworks (Cooperative Learning/Outdoor Adventure Education hybridization and Direct Instruction) on students' motivation and disruptive behaviours and explore students and teachers' views on hybridization. The participants were 170 high school students randomly distributed into...

This study examined women representation in editor-in-chief (EiC) position at physical education (PE) journals. A total of twenty-five PE journals were selected from Webof Science (Social Science Citation Index and Emerging Sources Citation Index) and Scopus. Each journal was classified based on indexation [Journal Impact Factor-Journal Citation Re...

The use of cooperative learning as a pedagogical framework in teacher-training colleges and universities has gained special relevance in the last decade. What do we know about the impact of cooperative learning-based interventions on future teachers so far? The purpose was to provide a contemporary picture on cooperative learning interventions in t...

Neoliberalism is currently the leading ideology and stablishes a personal and social model that rewards the individual and similar, while punishes the collective and different. Spanish education tends towards a neoliberal approach. What would happen if an intervention program based on contrary values is implemented? An intervention program based on...

RESUMEN El deporte es considerado uno de los contenidos fundamentales de la Educación Física. Entre ellos, los denominados alternativos o "nuevos" han cobrado mucha importancia en la última década. Pero ¿son intrínsecamente adecuados estos deportes "nuevos" o alternativos para su implementación en Educación Física o debemos hacer modificaciones met...

En septiembre de 2020 se retomaron las clases con multitud de medidas y recomendaciones por el Covid-19, y también con mucha incertidumbre. Los pocos documentos científicos existentes sobre el tema reflejan la opinión de los docentes, pero ¿y los estudiantes? ¿Cómo han vivido ellos esta nueva educación física? El objetivo del presente estudio fue c...

The use of cooperative learning as a pedagogical framework in teacher-training colleges and universities has gained special relevance in the last decade. What do we know about the impact of cooperative learning-based interventions on future teachers so far? The purpose was to provide a contemporary picture on cooperative learning interventions in t...

El deporte es considerado uno de los contenidos fundamentales de la Educación Física. De entre ellos, los denominados alternativos o “nuevos” han cobrado mucha importancia en la última década. Pero ¿son intrínsecamente adecuados estos deportes “nuevos” o alternativos para su implementación en Educación Física o debemos hacer modificaciones metodoló...

INTRODUCCIÓN. El confinamiento de la población provocado por la pandemia del coronavirus obligó al profesorado y a las familias a hacer una transición casi instantánea de la enseñanza presencial a la enseñanza a distancia. Pero, ¿cómo ha incidido esta transición en la denominada brecha digital? El objetivo del estudio fue conocer el impacto del cie...

Studies on gender gaps in research have reported several differences favoring males over females. Women scholars face many more barriers and biases in their professional career when compared to their men colleagues. This descriptive study aimed to provide, for the first time, a contemporary picture of women's representativeness in high-quality phys...

El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar los efectos de un programa de larga duración de Aprendizaje Cooperativo en las necesidades psicológicas básicas de los estudiantes y su intención de ser físicamente activos. Un total de 109 estudiantes (12-14 años) de cuatro clases diferentes de primer curso de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria aceptaron parti...

The goal of this study was to assess the effects of a long-term Cooperative Learning programme in students’ basic psychological needs and their intention to be physically active. A total of 109 students (12-14 years old) enrolled in four different Year 8 classes of Secondary Education agreed to participate. Students were organised into an experimen...

The goal of the present study was to extend the scope of previous reviews on cyberbullying to focus on elementary and middle school students, ages when research indicates that children begin to use mobile phones and social media. From 2016 to 2020, a total of 43 articles were included in the final selection, and purpose/s, sample, design/instrument...

The goal of this study was to examine teacher, students and parents' perceptions of a quidditch-muggle Sport Education season at a primary school. Fifty-two sixth-grade students from one primary school participated in the study. A case study research design was followed. One Physical Education specialist with expertise in the Sport Education Model...

Purpose : The purpose of this study was to investigate teacher and students’ perspectives on their experiences within three consecutive hybrid sport education and cooperative learning pedagogical model units. Method : Fifty elementary school students ( M age = 10.52; SD age = 0.39) and a 36-year-old male teacher participated in three consecutive hy...

The aim of this article is to explain how sport education, cooperative learning, and health-based physical education can be hybridized using an educative version of CrossFit as content in fifth and sixth grade to promote the abovementioned goals. The main features of the three models and the content used are fully described. Finally, recommendation...

Resumen: Esta investigación valoró los efectos de un programa didáctico gamificado sobre la ansiedad ante el fracaso en Educación Física. Además, pudimos reconocer las posibles causas al analizar las impresiones del alumnado sobre la experiencia. Participaron 143 estudiantes de 5º y 6º de primaria. Se siguió un diseño pre-experimental, pre-test, po...

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