PE-TEPLS: Physical Education Teachers' Embodied Professional Literacy Scale

The Physical Education Teachers' Embodied Professional Literacy Scale (PE-TEPLS) is a psychometrically validated instrument for assessing K-12 physical education teachers. It contains a 45-item structure across five dimensions, developed by Zhi Li through a mixed-method study involving Delphi consultation and a survey of 1,665 PE teachers in China. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-15.

Use Cases

• Assessing teacher professional literacy based on the five dimensions of embodied moral cultivation, motor ability basis, situational interaction, teaching transformation, and lifelong development.
• Conducting psychometric validation studies based on the established factor structure and invariance tests.
• Comparing teacher competencies across demographic groups based on the confirmed scalar invariance across gender.
• Developing training programs for physical education teachers based on the embodied professional literacy framework.

Strengths

• Psychometric robustness established through Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (EFA/CFA).
• Scalar invariance across gender confirmed via Multi-Group CFA.
• Reliability and discriminant validity were robustly established according to the description.
• Based on a large cross-sectional survey of 1,665 PE teachers.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the survey being conducted solely in China.

Provenance

Source

Zhi Li via figshare

Collection Method

Mixed-method design combining Delphi consultation (N = 20), Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), and a cross-sectional survey.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 04:28:09; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China