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- Understanding Adolescents' Need Support, Need Satisfaction, and Health-Related Outcomes: A Self-Determination Health Behavior Perspective
- Paper describes a study exploring the relationships among perceived need support from physical education teachers, psychological need satisfaction, and adolescents’ health-related outcomes in Chinese adolescent students.
- A method for predicting background advertisement exposure parameters in sporting events: Televised football game approach
- Article described study which tested a prediction method where virtual reality (VR) technology was utilized to simulate the telecast of the event and estimate the background advertisement exposure parameters.
- The Case for Measuring and Reporting Bilingualism in Developmental Research
- Article argues that bilingualism and language experience in general should be routinely documented in all studies of infant and child development regardless of the research questions pursued, and provides suggestions for measuring and reporting children’s language exposure, proficiency, and use.
- A scoping review of digital game-based technology on English language learning
- Article investigating the current practices of digital game-based language learning to support English language learning. This article provides strategies for educational researchers to improve their rigor in research, along with explicit criteria that digital game designers can apply toward language-learning game development.
- Comparing patients and families perceptions of satisfaction and predictors of overall satisfaction in the emergency department
- Article describes study aiming to investigate factors that best predict patient's satisfaction with their emergency department (ED) visit, as well as examine whether patients and their families perceived the factors related to satisfaction similarly.
- Assessing Statistical Anxiety Among Online and Traditional Students
- Article describes study which sought to determine whether scores on the Statistical Anxiety Scale (SAS) manifest in the same way for students in online and traditional statistics courses.
- Nap Opportunity During the Daytime Affects Performance and Perceived Exertion in 5-m Shuttle Run Test
- Article describes study comparing the effect of different durations of nap opportunity during the daytime on repeated high-intensity short-duration performance and rating of perceived exertion (RPE).
- Psychosocial predictors of physical activity and health-related quality of life among Shanghai working adults
- This article investigates the psychosocial predictors of physical activity and quality of life (QOL) among Shanghai working adults. Stress and social support from friends were two important sources of self-efficacy, all of which facilitated more physical activity participation. Lower stress, higher social support, and more physical activity may directly increase QOL among Shanghai working adults.
- Private blog reflections connecting course content with field experiences: Preservice teachers grapple with teacher identity
- Article examining teacher preparation programs ability to help preservice teachers connect educational theory with teaching practice. This article systematically reflects on written responses, recorded in a private weblog over the course of a 15-week intermediate reading methods course.
- Administrators’ unintentional sensegiving and system reform outcomes
- Article examining how administrators help teachers and other administrators make sense of a system reform during the first two years of implementation.
- The Contemporary Lives of Age-Old Tales: Characters, Contexts, and Critical Issues
- Article is a study examining three picture books to consider the significance of contemporary retellings of traditional tales.
- Partnering With Parents: Devices and Apps to Support Elementary Children Reading
- Article providing evidence of how children from 120 homes across 46 classrooms use apps and portable technology to support their reading development. The finding that nearly all children in this study supported reading skills with portable technology in the home demonstrates the need to foster partnerships between parents and teachers that builds on children's technological knowledge and use to deepen learning between home and school.
- How Parent Perceptions Relate to Elementary Children’s Portable Technology Use by Gender and Grade Level
- Article examining how parents' reports of children’s technology use in the home varies by a child’s gender or grade level. Strategies are provided for teachers, support specialists, and parents to improve how children use technology. Implications for app developers are suggested.
- Challenges in measuring ACGME competencies: considerations for milestones
- This article extends previous studies of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)'s measure of residents' training progress to examine the validity of ACGME International competency measures for an international setting across emergency medicine (EM) and neurology, and across evaluators.
- Reliability Generalization of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire: A Meta-Analytic View of Reliability Estimates
- This article uses a reliability generalization meta-analysis to explore the relationship between study factors and levels of alpha reliability for the 15 subscales of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ).
- Unequal Higher Education in the United States: Growing Participation and Shrinking Opportunities
- This article argues that rising institutional inequality is a component of individual-level inequality in the United States because U.S. higher education provides a diverse group of students with unequal access to different kinds of institutions.
- Dimensional Structure of and Variation in Anthropomorphic Concepts of God
- This article describes a study assessing 341 individuals' attributions of anthropomorphic properties to God in three domains (psychological, biological, and physical), their religious beliefs, and their engagement in religious practices.
- Concept Raps versus Concept Maps: A Culturally Responsive Approach to STEM Vocabulary Development
- This article argues that the development of rap song lyrics or lyrical concept mapping can be a viable pedagogical alternative to the development of concept maps as a means to reinforce STEM vocabulary.
- Early Predictors of Child's Bully and Victim Statuses: A Longitudinal Investigation Using Parent, Teacher, and Student Reports From National Data
- This article studies how bullies and victims develop within the contexts of their homes and schools, and how early childhood behaviors can predict later bullying/victimization statuses.
- Information Communication Technology Use among Students in Inclusive Classroom
- This article compares the leisure and school-related computer use of students in inclusive classrooms.
- Latina/o School Administrators and the Intersectionality of Professional Identity and Race
- Article describes study which examines the intersectionality between professional identities and race/ethnicity among Latina/o school leaders.
- Analysis of the start to the first hurdle in 110 m hurdles at the IAAF World Athletics Championships Beijing 2015
- Article describes study in which observational analysis was used to evaluate the relationships between variables measured at the start of the men’s 110 hurdles event and race performance itself.
- Levelling the Playing Field: Human Capability Approach and Lived Realities for Sport and Gender in the West Indies
- This article applies the human capability approach (HCA) to explicitly investigate gender role attitudes from the perspective of boy and girl participants in sport for development and peace (SDP).
- Predictors of Portable Technology Adoption to Support Elementary Children Reading in the Home
- Article identifying predictors of parent's portable technology adoption to support children's reading development in the home by applying the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology to informal elementary education.
- Effects of Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Weight Status on Knowledge of Physical Activity and Fitness, Attitude Toward Physical Education, and Physical Activity
- This article examines the effects of cardiorespiratory fitness and weight status on knowledge of physical activity and fitness, attitude toward physical education, and physical activity.
- Mental Health Interventions for Parent Carers of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder: Practice Guidelines from a Critical Interpretive Synthesis (CIS) Systematic Review
- This article contains a systematic review that identifies key qualities of interventions supporting the mental health of parent carers and proposes practitioner-parent carer support guidelines.
- Measurement Invariance of a Classroom Engagement Measure among Academically At-Risk Students
- This article investigates the measurement invariance of a classroom engagement measure across time points, genders, and ethnicities using a sample of 523 academically at-risk students across grades 7 through 9.
- Parents’ mobile technology adoption influences on elementary children’s use
- This article identifies 120 parents' intentions to adopt mobile technology and gathers in-depth perceptions about mobile technology adoption with a smaller subset of 13 parents.
- MyStory: Scary Head...
- This article consists of a critical autoethnographic study of the writer's personal experience, specifically detailing experiences while wearing a headscarf in academic and social environments.
- Oral Supplementation with Baker's Yeast Beta Glucan Is Associated with Altered Monocytes, T Cells and Cytokines following a Bout of Strenuous Exercise
- This article discusses a study to determine if 10 days of oral supplementation with Baker's yeast beta glucan (BYBG) could modify previously observed suppression of monocytes, T cells, circulating and whole blood LPS-stimulated cytokines due to strenuous exercise.
- Understanding the Interdisciplinary Discipline: An Introduction to Sport Management
- This editorial introduces the sport management discipline.
- Quantitative Preparation in Doctoral Education Programs: A Mixed-Methods Study of Doctoral Student Perspectives on Their Quantitative Training
- This article explores student perceptions of their own doctoral-level education and quantitative proficiency.
- Better Health-Related Fitness in Youth: Implications for Public Health Guidelines
- This article discusses the upcoming 2018 update to public health physical activity guidelines.
- The Efficacy of Common Fit Indices for Enumerating Classes in Growth Mixture Models When Nested Data Structure is Ignored: A Monte Carlo Study
- This article investigates whether the correct number of classes can still be retrieved when a higher level of nesting in multilevel growth mixture model (MGMM) is ignored.
- Child Care Experiences Among Dual Language Learners in the United States: Analyses of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Birth Cohort
- This article uses nationally representative data from the Early Chlidhood Longitudinal Study--Birth Cohort used to examine child care experiences with repreated cross-sectional analysis at 9, 24, and 52 months for dual language learner and non-dual language learner children.
- Sedentary behavior and physical activity predicting depressive symptoms in adolescents beyond attributes of health-related physical fitness
- This article investigates whether sedentary behavior and fitness-producing activity predicted depression in active adolescents over and above gender and fitness attributes.
- Non-invasive Measures of Core Temperature versus Ingestible Thermistor during Exercise in the Heat
- This article discusses a study to cross-validate temporal, two tympanic devices, and oral devices compared to an ingestible thermistor during exercise in a hot, humid environment.
- "Remixing" Current Events: Navigating the Transmedia Terrain with Fifth Graders
- This article discusses two democratic media literacy skills that teachers can model and teach to help students as 21st century citizens.
- American-British Sporting Rivalries and the Making of the Global Sports Industry
- This article examines a key aspect of American sports history within a transnational context.
- “Being Wholly Muslim and Wholly American”: Exploring One Islamic School’s Efforts to Educate Against Extremism
- This article reports findings from a qualitative case study of an Islamic school in the United States that counters religious extremism through the promotion and development of an American Muslim identity in its students, an ideology that advances the idea that an individual can be wholly American and wholly Muslim without any incongruity.
- A Book Review: Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space Where the Market Meets Grassroots Resistance By Kristen L. Buras
- Book review of "Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space: Where the Market Meets Grassroots Resistance" by Kristen L. Buras.
- Ignorance or Indifference? Seeking Excellence and Equity for Under-Represented Students of Color in Gifted Education
- This article discusses data on under-representation of students of color in gifted education programs in the U.S., along with contributing factors and recommendations.
- Meeting USDHHS Physical Activity Guidelines and Health Outcomes
- This article discusses relating health markers (blood pressure, percent fat, BMI, blood glucose, cholesterol, and cardiorespiratory fitness) to verify the dose response for physical activity guidelines revision.
- Transforming Educational Leadership Preparation: Starting with Ourselves
- This article describes a duoethnography of two faculty members working in different leadership programs to reveal how their understanding of diversity and social justice has been formed over the course of their lives.
- Bayesian Prior Choice in IRT Estimation Using MCMC and Variational Bayes
- This study investigates the impact of three prior distributions: matched, standard vague, and hierarchical in Bayesian estimation parameter recovery in two and one parameter models.
- Videoconferencing for Global Citizenship Education: Wise Practices for Social Studies Educators
- This article reviews literature on videoconferencing for global citizenship education and analyzes those efforts towards cosmopolitan citizenship.
- Changes in Endothelial Markers during a Summer Ultra-Endurance Road Cycling Event in the Heat
- This article assesses the impact of completing a 164 km road cycling event performed in a hot environment (Wichita Falls, Texas in August), on endothelial biomarkers and resultant risk of blood clots in men and women.
- The Role of Dynamic Systems Theory in Motor Development Research: How Does Theory Inform Practice and What Are the Potential Implications for Autism Spectrum Disorder?
- This article reviews 18 instances in the literature where dynamic systems theory (DST) has been used to analyze, test, or manipulate motor patterns and movement.
- Changes of Children's Motivation in Physical Education and Physical Activity: A Longitudinal Perspective
- This article attempts to examine the relationship between changes of children's motivation to changes in children's intention for future participation in physical education and physical activity over an academic year, guided by the expectancy-value model.
- The Virtual Workroom: Using Social Media, Teachers Reach Beyond School Walls to Learn and Grow
- This article discusses educators' use of professional learning networks and its impact on their teaching and student learning.