Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Research Protocols
Date Submitted: Oct 24, 2024
Date Accepted: Jul 29, 2025
Australian Implementation of the Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Pedagogical Model in Physical Education: Protocol for a Nonrandomized Controlled Trial
ABSTRACT
Background:
Interventions targeting the psychomotor domain of learning have been the most dominant in the Physical Education (PE) discipline. However, as PE also incorporates a holistic perspective of student development, a gap has emerged where interventions targeting cognitive, affective and social domains and outcomes is not as evident. Social outcomes have been of particular interest within interventions conducted in PE.
Objective:
This intervention study will evaluate the effect of social learning outcomes on high school students. The intervention will be shaped by the Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility (TSPR) framework. The TPSR framework has not been studied within the Australian context creating a gap and an opportunity to explore its impact on social behaviours of Australian adolescents.
Methods:
This study will use a mixed methods study design to reconcile concerns over the TPSR framework lacking quantitative measures. The study will also apply a stepped wedge methodology that will allow all participant groups to receive the intervention, albeit at different times. The stepped wedge approach is a relatively new methodology that has been successfully implemented in previous school-based interventions in PE. Three secondary schools with three classes each in New South Wales, Australia, will be invited to participate, implementing the TPSR framework into the Year 8 PE programs.
Results:
This intervention study will demonstrate the impact of TPSR on social outcomes in Australian high schools for the first time. Recruitment has begun in October, 2024 and will cease in December, 2024.
Conclusions:
This protocol paper outlines the approach to implementing and evaluating the TPSR intervention amongst high school participants. One anticipated strength of the intervention is the ability to apply the framework to different settings including schools, school sport, and community organisations. Longitudinal follow up assessment will be critical in determining the long term impact of the intervention on behavioural changes of its participants. Clinical Trial: ACTRN12624000858594p
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