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Ang Chen, Ph.D., is professor in the Department of Kinesiology at 
the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is an experienced 
researcher in child and adolescent motivation for physical activity, learn-
ing on physical education, physical activity and physical skills assessment, 
and program evaluation. Dr. Chen’s studies examine relationships among 
curriculum, learner motivation, and physical activity outcomes, such as 
caloric expenditure in physical education. Specifically, he uses motiva-
tion theories to develop an innovative physical education curriculum that 
encourages behavioral change and enhances child and adolescent knowl-
edge about physical activity. His recent research has focused on cognition- 
and motivation-based intervention on physical activity behavioral change 
in children and adolescents. Dr. Chen has been a principal investigator and 
coinvestigator in several federally funded, large-scale, multiyear physical 
education intervention studies with elementary and middle school stu-
dents. He has published approximately 60 research articles and delivered 
more than 90 research presentations at national and international confer-
ences. He received an M.Ed. from Shanghai Institute of Physical Education 
(currently Shanghai University of Sport) of China and a Ph.D. from the 
University of Maryland at College Park.