RT Journal Article T1 Parental assessment of physical education in the school curriculum: A brief report on the influence of past experiences as students A1 Lago Ballesteros, Joaquín A1 Martins, João A1 González Valeiro, Miguel Ángel A1 Fernández Villarino, María A. AB The aim of this study was to analyse the relationship between parents’ past experience asPhysical Education (PE) students and the importance they give to PE within the school curriculum.Parents of 1834 teenagers from Spain and Portugal participated in the study (1834fathers and 1834 mothers). An 11 item questionnaire was used for data collection. The measuresstudied were: socio-demographic characteristics, parent´s past experience as PE students,and importance that parents gave to PE in the school curriculum. The results suggestthat parents’ past experiences as PE student condition their evaluation of the importancethat PE should have in the school curriculum. As the past experience as PE student deterioratedand as age increased, there was an increase in the probability that parents evaluatePE as deserving a less important status in their children’s curriculum. These findings cancontribute to understanding how the parents’ past experiences as PE students seem to partiallymodel the value judgements that they make later in life regarding the importance of thesubject.Introduction PB PLOS YR 2019 FD 2019 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/21299 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/21299 LA eng NO Lago-Ballesteros J, Martins J, González- Valeiro MÁ, Fernández-Villarino MA (2019) Parental assessment of physical education in the school curriculum: A brief report on the influence of past experiences as students. "PLoS ONE" 14(7): e0219544. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0219544 NO The present study was supported by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain with the project: "Diseño y desarrollo de un software para el análisis del rendimiento en fútbol" (DEP2016-75785-R) DS Minerva RD 23 abr 2026