title: Relationship between motivation and learning in physical education and after-school physical activity.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  A primary goal of physical education is to develop physically literate individuals with the knowledge, skills, and confidence necessary for a physically active lifestyle. Guided by the expectancy-value and interest motivation theories, the purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between students' motivation and health-related fitness knowledge developed in physical education and their after-school physical activity participation.
  
  
  METHODS
  Third-, 4th-, and 5th-grade students (N = 293) from 6 elementary schools in a large metropolitan school district in the United States provided data on expectancy beliefs and perceived task values, situational interest, health-related fitness knowledge, and after-school physical activity. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and a simultaneous multiple regression model.
  
  
  RESULTS
  It was found that expectancy beliefs (β = .20, t = 2.16, p = .03) and perceived exploration demand (β = .25, t = 2.58, p = .01), a source for situational interest, were positively related to after-school physical activity. The 2 variables, however, accounted for only 11.2% of the variances for children's after-school physical activity participation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study demonstrates that students' active exploration and expectancy beliefs for success in physical education have limited influence on leisure-time physical activity participation.
authors.affiliation: a Iowa State University.
authors.forename: Senlin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Haichun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Xihe
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Ang
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D009043:Motor Activity; D010806:Physical Education and Training; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: elementary school; expectancy belief; situational interest; task value