Rate My Professor Paul Treschman

Paul Treschman is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences within the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Queensland. He holds a Bachelor of Education (Secondary) from Queensland University of Technology and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland. Treschman's research specializes in formative assessment and feedback in physical education, investigating how teachers' behaviours influence students' motivation, learning, and performance. His interests include mastery motivational climates, which emphasize supportive and individually challenging learning environments shaped by task design, teaching styles, and evaluation processes. He explores Self-Determination Theory and Achievement Goal Theory in physical education contexts, as well as the impacts of task design, group dynamics, and differentiated learning on student outcomes. Additional foci encompass feedback processes—the quantity, type, reception, interpretation, and student enactment of feedback—and its effects on challenge levels and risk-taking in learning decisions. Treschman also examines caring, relatedness, connection, and interpersonal skills' roles in fostering student motivation, learning, and behaviour.

Treschman's key publications include the journal article 'Activating students in feedback and assessment processes in physical education' (2025, Sport, Education and Society), co-authored with Michalis Stylianou, Cam Brooks, and Leigh Sperka, and 'A scoping review of feedback in physical education: conceptualisations and the role of teachers and students' (2024, European Physical Education Review), co-authored with Stylianou and Brooks. He presented 'Activating the student in the feedback process' at the Australian Association for Research in Education conference in Melbourne (2023), 'Conceptualising feedback in physical education: A scoping review' in Adelaide (2022), and 'Apply first. Explain later' at UQ Teaching and Learning Week (2022). Additionally, he contributed to the 2023 case study 'Distributed leadership in a health and physical education teacher education programme' with colleagues including Eimear Enright, Sue Monsen, Leigh Sperka, Michalis Stylianou, and José Tenorio. His fields of research cover curriculum and pedagogy, physical education and development, primary and secondary education, sports science and exercise, education systems, and biomedical and clinical sciences. Treschman is available for supervision.