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By utilising ideas about the differential effects of the "hidden curriculum", this investigation studied physical education teachers' views of pupils' physical ability and personal qualities, and pupils' perceptions of their teachers, and of themselves. The 2,619 fifteen to sixteen year old pupils selected from twelve Scottish comprehensive schools were categorized as competitive (i.e. they repre sented the school in some form of physical activity or sport); recreative (i.e. they took part in extracurricular school sport but did not participate competitively), or non-participant (i.e. they did not participate in extracurricular school sport). Results indicated that physical education teachers held most favourable attitudes towards competitive pupils, then recreatives and then non-participants. Pupils' groups in turn evaluated physical education teachers differentially with active pupils viewing their teachers more positively than non-participants. Further, ac tive pupils (especially competitors) possessed a more favourable self-esteem in relation to sports than non-participants. Finally, the combination of personal qualities and characteristics, in terms of both pupils' self perceptions and teachers' evaluations, which best distinguished competitors from the other groups of pupils was presented.

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Aspects of the Hidden Curriculum: Teachers' and Pupils' Perceptions in Physical Education

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