Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport lecture. Statewide physical fitness testing: a big waist or a big waste?

abstract：:Gross motor skill performance of children with visual impairments and its association with the degree of visual impairment and sports participation was examined. Twenty children with visual impairments (M age = 9.2 years, SD = 1.5) and 100 sighted children (M age = 9.1 years, SD = 1.5) from mainstream schools particip...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Houwen S,Visscher C,Hartman E,Lemmink KA

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose: The decision by the International Football Association Board in 2004 to approve the use of artificial surfaces in elite football (soccer) competitions remains controversial amongst many players, managers and coaching staff. The aim of this study was to conduct a comprehensive assessment of players' opinions t...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Roberts JR,Osei-Owusu P,Mears AC,Harland AR

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T'ai Chi Chuan (TCC) is a widely practiced Chinese martial art said to physically develop balance and coordination as well as enhance emotional and mental health. TCC consists of a series of postures combined into a sequential movement providing a smooth, continuous, low-intensity activity. The purpose of this study w...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Brown DD,Mucci WG,Hetzler RK,Knowlton RG

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The requirement for postural stability during the performance of motor skills has been clearly demonstrated in infants, but the necessity for such a postural substrate is not well documented in adults. The present study investigated the role of postural stability during a ballistic ball-kicking task in adults b...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Sidaway B,Bouchard M,Chasse J,Dunn J,Govoni A,McPherson B,Roy K,Anderson DI

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extreme preference in processing information within either the left or right hemisphere is known as hemisphericity. A previous study investigating hemisphericity as a factor in motor skill learning (Murray, 1979) found that matching subjects' hemisphericity characteristics with hemispherical teaching strategies enh...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Fairweather MM,Sidaway B

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a planned mastery motivational physical play session on physical activity (i.e., heart rate [HR] and physical play intensity [PAHR > 50]) in toddlers (N = 21), as compared to a nonplanned free play session. Participants wore a monitor to measure HR over t...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Parish LE,Rudisill ME,St Onge PM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using Pierre Bourdieu's theories of social class differentiation and class reproduction, this paper provides an analysis of class-based identity politics in contemporary suburban America. Through a critical ethnography of the emergent, American, upper-middle-class "soccer mom" phenomenon, this study contributes to a g...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Swanson L

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the acute effects of general warm-up (GWU) and GWU plus dynamic stretching (GWU + DS) on endurance running performance in well-trained male runners. Method: The endurance running performances of eight well-trained long-distance male runners were assessed on a treadmill...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Yamaguchi T,Takizawa K,Shibata K,Tomabechi N,Samukawa M,Yamanaka M

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose: We investigated youth soccer players' perception of affordances for different types of kicks. Method: In the Power task, players judged the maximum distance they could kick the ball. In the Precision task, players judged how close to a designated target line they could kick the ball. Following judgments, play...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Peker AT,Böge V,Bailey G,Wagman JB,Stoffregen TA

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies devoted to K-12 learner motivation in physical education share a general assumption that students may lack motivation. This meta-analytic study examined published original studies (n = 79) to determine students' motivation level and the association between motivation and outcomes. Original means of mo...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Chen S,Chen A,Zhu X

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To quantify creatine kinase (CK) activity changes across time following an acute bout of whole-body vibration (WBV) and determine the association between changes in CK activity and jumping performance. METHOD:Twenty-six elite young basketball players were assigned to 3 groups: 36-Hz and 46-Hz vibration groups ...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Fachina R,da Silva A,Falcão W,Montagner P,Borin J,Minozzo F,Falcão D,Vancini R,Poston B,de Lira C

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiment 1 examined whether it is more advantageous to direct learners' attention to the external effects of their movements relative to other external cues. Two groups of participants hit tennis balls at a target, with one group focusing on the ball coming toward them (antecedent) and the other group focusing on th...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Wulf G,McNevin NH,Fuchs T,Ritter F,Toole T

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research examined the role of value orientations in curricular decision making from the perspective of high school physical education teachers and students. Educational value orientations served as the theoretical base for the research. Teachers who exhibited one of two paired orientations, disciplinary mastery/l...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Ennis CD,Ross J,Chen A

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Borrowing from Tuchman's (1978) concept of symbolic annihilation, the purpose of this study was to explore the ways in which physically active females were represented in children's picture books. METHOD:Employing a qualitative content analysis methodology (Hsieh & Shannon, 2005), the written and pictorial por...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Roper EA,Clifton AM

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose: The purpose of this study was to adopt an explicitly intersectional approach to examine the experiences of women identifying as having a visual impairment and as being overweight or obese in integrated physical education (PE). Method: An interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) research approach was use...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Haegele JA,Zhu X,Holland K

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This experiment investigates the recent proposal of Schmidt, Young, Swinnen, and Shapiro (1989) that summary knowledge of results (KR) improves skill retention. In Schmidt et al.'s experiment, however, summary length varied concomitantly with the frequency of KR presentation. The current investigation held KR presenta...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Sidaway B,Moore B,Schoenfelder-Zohdi B

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Covert orienting was measured in 50 college athletes and 51 nonathletes of both genders. Visual environments of the sports were both static (swimming, track) and dynamic (soccer, volleyball). Participants made speeded responses in a task measuring vigilance, alerting, automatic orienting, voluntary orienting, modulati...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Lum J,Enns JT,Pratt J

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishing stability, defined as observing minimal measurement error in a test-retest assessment, is vital to validating psychometric tools. Correlational methods, such as Pearson product-moment, intraclass, and kappa are tests of association or consistency, whereas stability or reproducibility (regarded here as syn...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Lane AM,Nevill AM,Bowes N,Fox KR

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It seems that dehydration may impair decision-making performance in athletes. PURPOSE:This study aimed to investigate the influence of dehydration on passing decision-making performance in soccer players. METHOD:Participants were 40 male soccer players (Mage = 22.3 ± 2.3 years) who agreed to participate in the study...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Fortes LS,Nascimento-Júnior JRA,Mortatti AL,Lima-Júnior DRAA,Ferreira MEC

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The guidance hypothesis (Schmidt, 1991) predicts that the guiding properties of augmented feedback are beneficial for motor learning when used to reduce error, but detrimental when relied upon. Therefore, a heavily guiding form of feedback might be detrimental for learning. In addition, the guidance hypothesis predict...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Winstein CJ,Pohl PS,Lewthwaite R

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to compare estimates of test reliability obtained from two sequential testing plans--trials-to-criterion (TTC) and sequential probability ratio (SPR) testing--when reliability is defined as the consistency of classification. Data from a golf chip test given to 110 beginning golf students ...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Patterson P,Shifflett B

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: This study aimed to investigate the repeated effect of social media on smartphones immediately before training sessions on inhibitory control (Stroop task), endurance (tethered swimming), countermovement jump (CMJ), and swimming performance (50, 100, and 400-m freestyle) in high-level female swimmers. Metho...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Fortes LS,Nakamura FY,Lima-Junior D,Ferreira MEC,Fonseca FS

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is an extension of an earlier investigation of undergraduate students' acquisition of key pedagogical concepts in a physical education teaching methodology course. In that study, Pathfinder, a method for eliciting associative memory networks, was used to describe and compare the pedagogical knowledge struct...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Housner LD,Gomez R,Griffey DC

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The relationships among students' self-efficacy, 2 x 2 achievement goals (mastery-approach [MAp], mastery-avoidance [MAv], performance-approach [PAp], and performance-avoidance goals), and achievement performance remain largely unanswered. We tested a model of the mediating role of self-efficacy on the relation...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Gao Z,Xiang P,Lochbaum M,Guan J

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nordic walking (NW), characterized by the use of two walking poles, is becoming increasingly popular (Morgulec-Adamowicz, Marszalek, & Jagustyn, 2011). We studied walking pressure patterns of 20 experienced and 30 beginner Nordic walkers. Plantar pressures from nine foot zones were measured during trials performed at ...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Pérez-Soriano P,Llana-Belloch S,Martínez-Nova A,Morey-Klapsing G,Encarnación-Martínez A

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose: This study builds a stochastic model of a discrete-time Markov chain (DTMC) that fits well with a dataset of professional playing records. Methods: The point-by-point dataset of Men's single matches played in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tour from 2011 to 2015 is analyzed. A long-debated assu...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Sim MK,Choi DG

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to extend previous research on aggressive tendencies and moral atmosphere in two ways: (a) to include participants of two skill levels in a summer youth basketball skill camp and (b) to examine the influence of the coach on participants' aggressive tendencies. The participants were 136 youth fr...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Stephens DE

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was guided by the Family Influence Model to examine the role of parental beliefs in their children's moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA). The specific purposes were to (1) examine the nature of a parental belief system that may be relevant to children's MVPA participation, (2) determine if ...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Kimiecik JC,Horn TS

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Within the modern cultural climate, those in larger bodies face high levels of weight stigma, particularly in sport and physical activity spaces, which serves as a strong barrier to their participation. However, given the strong link between physical activity and general health and well-being for participants, ...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Pickett AC,Cunningham GB

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we compared measured maximal heart rate (HRmax) to two different HRmax prediction equations [22 - age and 208 - 0.7(age)] in 52 children ages 7-17 years. We determined the relationship of chronological age, maturational age, and resting HR to measured HRmax and assessed seated resting HR and HRmax durin...

journal_title：Research quarterly for exercise and sport

authors： Mahon AD,Marjerrison AD,Lee JD,Woodruff ME,Hanna LE

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00