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Yamak, Bade; Imamoglu, Osman – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2019
The aim of this study is to examine 20-meter repetitive sprint performance every 20 seconds in the U 16 and U18 category soccer players. It is also to create normative data for 20-meter repetitive sprint performance for football players. In our study, 22 players at Soccer's U16 category and 23 players at Soccer's at U18 category performed a test…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Athletes, Repetition, Physical Activities
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Ihugba, O. A.; Obiukwu, S.; Akobundu, P. L.; Osunkwo, T.; Oyalede, O.; Okonkwo, K. – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2022
The bounds testing (augmented autoregressive distributed lag, ARDL) technique to cointegration was used in this study to investigate the effect of household income and expenditure on tertiary school enrolment in Nigeria from 1970 to 2020. The model was employed to estimate the relationship between these three variables while also accounting for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Enrollment, Family Income, Expenditures
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Fontana, Matthew T. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
Social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic presents mental health and academic obstacles for students. As mental health can strongly influence academic performance, addressing the loss of community by transitioning to distance education, midsemester, is imperative. This work draws upon the community and wellness benefits associated with online…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Videoconferencing, Video Games, Educational Games
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Dziemianko, Anna – ReCALL, 2021
The aim of the paper is to investigate the usefulness of different illustration formats in online English learners' dictionaries for the accuracy and speed of meaning comprehension as well as immediate and delayed retention. In a controlled online experiment, the meaning of selected English words and phrases had to be explained with the help of…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Electronic Publishing, Illustrations, English (Second Language)
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Aykora, Emrah – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2019
This study is intended to analyze any improvement in flexibility, balance, strength (hand, grip, arm, torso, leg) and physiological (body weight, body mass index, body fat percentage) parameters for elementary school children with no background of sport climbing in a sport climbing training they attend. The physical and physiological parameters of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Physical Activities, Athletics, Adventure Education
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Cogger, Steve – Science Teacher, 2015
The traditional Run the Football Field physics activity--in which students are timed as they move at different speeds on a football field to investigate displacement and velocity--has been updated for the 21st century. Nowadays, GPS-enabled tablets and smartphones replace the stopwatches and yard markers of the past, allowing students to collect…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Computer Oriented Programs, Technology Uses in Education
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Rivilis, Irina; Liu, Jian; Cairney, John; Hay, John A.; Klentrou, Panagiota; Faught, Brent E. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
The purpose of this prospective cohort study was to assess how cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) of children with probable developmental coordination disorder (DCD) changes over a period of 4.7 years relative to a group of typically developing controls. A school-based sample of children in a large region of Ontario, Canada with 75 out of a possible…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Perceptual Motor Coordination, Cohort Analysis, Physical Fitness
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Turna, Bülent; Kilinç, Fatih – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
The purpose of this study is to determine and compare some biomotoric properties and anthropometric measurements of Antalya Muratpasa High School Boys' Basketball Team and Football Team. Thirty volunteering players from Antalya Muratpasa High School Boys' Basketball and Football Teams participated in the study. Fifteen of the participants were…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Human Body, Athletes, Team Sports
Mellon, Ericka – District Administration, 2010
This article profiles Terry Grier, the new superintendent of Houston Independent School District. Grier, who began his career as a teacher and a coach in North Carolina, has run nine school districts in six states over the last 25 years. His allies and critics agree on one thing: Grier pushes change at lightning speed. That's the main reason the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, School Districts, Administrative Change
Wang, Xiaojun Grace – Online Submission, 2010
The world has a mixed record towards achieving EFA [Education for All] and the MDGs [Millennium Development Goals] in relation to the targets on gender equity in basic education. For researchers and practitioners, this raises the question of which factors influence the processes leading to the improvement of access and quality of girls' education…
Descriptors: Females, Figurative Language, Cultural Awareness, Interaction
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1983
THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT (Except for the Evaluation Summary Table): VERSION: Copyright 1981. PRODUCER: Davidson and Associates, 6069 Groveoak Place #12, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90274. EVALUATION COMPLETED: January, 1983 by the Oakland ISD of Pontiac, Michigan. COST: $70.00. ABILITY LEVEL: Secondary. SUBJECT: Reading. MEDIUM…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, Drills (Practice), Microcomputers
Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY.
Teachers can improve classroom procedure by producing and showing their own 8mm films, while building a library of effective teaching aids. These motion pictures are conceived as intrinsic parts of a teaching plan, and are designed to explain a single idea or concept. Single-concept or specific-objective films generate a high degree of student…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Film Production, Films, Instructional Films
Taitt, Henry A. – 1983
Designed to improve students' thinking, learning, and creative skills while they learn to program a microcomputer in BASIC programing language, this book for intermediate learners at the high school/adult level provides a variety of microcomputer activities designed to extend the concepts taught in the accompanying instructional manuals (Volumes 3…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Computer Graphics, Computer Science Education, Computer Software
Taitt, Kathy – 1984
Designed to improve students' thinking, learning, and creative skills while they learn to program a microcomputer in BASIC programing language, this instructional manual for beginning learners provides a brief section of information for each new topic together with a sample program to enter, run on the computer, and observe; a suggested change to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Computer Graphics, Computer Science Education, Computer Software
Espenshade, Thomas J. – 1986
This report aims to improve the quality of the policy-making process by using a broad distribution of research findings on the consequences of immigration to California. All major immigrant groups to California are included. Using the information collected, this report discusses economic and fiscal issues associated with immigration, character and…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Birth Rate, Demography, Foreign Nationals