Richard Jean-François

• Ph.D.
• Professor (Full) at University of Moncton

Le « Team Sport Assessment Procedure (TSAP) » de Gréhaigne, Godbout et Bouthier (1997) fut initialement élaboré pour utilisation dans les programmes d’éducation physique au Lycée (14 à 18 ans). Les études de Richard, Godbout et Gréhaigne (1998 et 2000) ont regardé différentes facettes de son intégration aux programmes d’éducation physique dans les...

La typologie des conceptions des universités de Larouche et al. (2012) a été développée et validée en vue d’évaluer la performance des établissements universitaires. Cette typologie comporte sept types de conceptions (Académique, Service public, Marché, Entrepreneuriale, Politique, Milieu de vie et Apprenante). De façon à juger de l’applicabilité d...

A practical guide written to assist Faculty in the development and revision of university courses and programs.

Un manuel pratique servant de guide dans la planification des apprentissages dans un contexte d'enseignement universitaire.

Written as a resource for both pre-service and in-service educators, this theory-to-practice book focuses on the foundations and applications of constructivism applied to the teaching and learning of invasion sports and games.

Teaching games for understanding (TGFU) is understood as an inquiry approach to games teaching where the play of a game is taught before skill refinement. The TGFU approach has encouraged debate on games teaching which has often polarized into skills v tactics arguments. When teaching games it is hard to separate skills from tactics, in reality the...

[Français] Cette contribution s’inscrit dans une continuation de recherches sur les effets pédagogiques des technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC). Une recension par procédure méta-analytique est entreprise afin d’examiner la relation entre l’utilisation des télévoteurs en grands groupes et le rendement des étudiants. Après avoi...

The aim of this study was to adapt a performance measurement tool, the Team Sport Assessment Procedure (TSAP), to ice hockey during match-play. In addition to the six categories included in the original observational procedure, the ice hockey TSAP contained four new categories. Twelve Pee-Wee ice hockey matches were video-recorded during a regional...

Background: Coaches and physical educators must obtain valid data relating to the contribution of each of their players in order to assess their level of performance in team sport competition. This information must also be collected and used in real game situations to be more valid. Developed initially for a physical education class context, the Te...

This study identified school factors that determined writing achievement for 13- and 16-year-old Francophone students in minority (Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia) and majority settings (Quebec) (N = 5700). Factor analysis retained three factors subjected to binary logistic regression with students' academic performance: Human and...

Teacher beliefs are a major influence on teacher actions. Because context influences beliefs, it was the purpose of this study to explore teachers' beliefs about Mosston's Spectrum of Teaching Styles from an international perspective. Over 1,400 teachers from 7 countries completed a survey related to their self-reported use of and beliefs about var...

In a polluted village, researchers identified the initial conceptions of students on pollution and on the relationship between pollution and health. They then provided the students with a conceptual change process based on experiential and socioconstructivist activities: fieldtrips, analysis of environmental stressors, experimentation of a health i...

Written as a resource for both pre-service and in-service educators' this theory-to-practice book focuses on the foundations and applications of constructivism applied to the teaching and learning of invasion sports and games

This book is a collection of essays written by teacher educators with a passion for sharing knowledge, research, and insights about the Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) approach. The intended audience for this collection is teacher educators and graduate and undergraduate students in physical education and sport pedagogy as well as practicin...

Children are more vulnerable to environmental pollutants than adults and they have to, by consequence, be aware of the local dangers that threaten their health. In a polluted village, the researchers identified the initial conceptions of 9-10 year old students on pollution, health and the pollution-health link. They then helped the children live-th...

Avec son article classique de 1968, Benjamin Bloom a popularisé l’approche de la pédagogie de la maîtrise des apprentissages. Bien que les éducateurs et les éducatrices acceptent les principes de cette approche éducative, on lui reproche ses origines dites behaviorales et elle est souvent associée exclusivement à une pédagogie par objectifs. Dans c...

After 25 years, the Spectrum of Teaching Styles developed and refined by Mosston and Ashworth (1994) continue to be an important part of the conceptualization of teaching (Hodges Kulinna, Cothran, & Zhu, 2000). However before the 2000, very few studies have been conducted to determine the use of those styles by physical education (PE) teachers. Hod...

The purpose of this study is to describe the results of a try-out of Gréhaigne, Godbout, and Bouthier's (1997) team sport performance assessment procedure in elementary and junior high school physical education classes and to expose issues related to its potential implementation. Six elementary and junior high school teachers were asked to use this...