Pre-service physical education teachers (PPETs) may be implementing health-related fitness testing (HRFT) in schools in the future. Thus, exploring their attitudes toward HRFT would help us understand physical education (PE) teachers’ attitudes toward HRFT. This study investigated PPET attitudes toward HRFT in the USA and the effects of teacher characteristics (i.e. gender, ethnicity, year in university, and previous experience with fitness tests) on attitudes. A total of 501 PPETs (283 males, 56.5%; 218 females, 43.5%) aged 28.12 years (SD = 7.34) were included. The previously validated PPETs’ attitudes toward HRFT survey was used to collect the data using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Confirmatory factor analysis and Cronbach’s alpha were first used to examine the validity and reliability of the instrument. Then analysis of variance and multivariate analysis of variance were performed to test overall attitude differences and attitude subdomain differences in teacher characteristics, respectively. The results generated by the reliable and valid scale indicated that only slightly positive overall attitudes toward HRFT were found among PPETs. Year in university had a significant effect only on the cognitive component of attitude. PPETs’ previous experience with fitness tests had significant effects on all aspects of attitudes. No gender or ethnicity differences were found, however. More efforts are needed to improve fitness education in both higher education and K-12 PE programmes in order to help students develop positive attitudes and experiences toward HRFT. Future studies should focus on exploring how PETE programmes prepare PPETs for using HRFT in K-12 programmes.

职前体育教师（PPET）将来可能会在学校中实施健康相关的体能测试（HRFT）。因此，探索他们对HRFT的态度将有助于我们了解体育教师对HRFT的态度。这项研究调查了美国PPET对HRFT的态度以及教师特征（即性别，种族，大学年份以及以前的体能测试经验）对态度的影响。包括年龄为28.12岁（SD = 7.34）的501种PPET（男性283例，占56.5％；女性218例，占43.5％）。先前经过验证的PPET对HRFT调查的态度被用于使用Amazon的Mechanical Turk收集数据。验证性因子分析和克朗巴赫（Cronbach's）α首先用于检查仪器的有效性和可靠性。然后进行方差分析和方差的多元分析，以分别测试教师特征中的整体态度差异和态度子域差异。可靠和有效的量表所产生的结果表明，在PPET中，人们对HRFT的总体态度只有轻微的积极态度。大学一年级仅对态度的认知成分有显着影响。PPET以前的体能测试经验对态度的各个方面都产生了重大影响。但是，没有发现性别或种族差异。为了帮助学生培养对HRFT的积极态度和经验，需要加大努力来改善高等教育和K-12体育课程中的健身教育。