The Role of Observation and Emulation in the Development of Athletic Self-Regulation.

Kitsantas, Anastasia; Zimmerman, Barry J.; Cleary, Tim

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ERIC Number: EJ621021

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Publication Date: 2000

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The Role of Observation and Emulation in the Development of Athletic Self-Regulation.

Kitsantas, Anastasia; Zimmerman, Barry J.; Cleary, Tim

Journal of Educational Psychology, v92 n4 p811-17 Dec 2000

Studies the influences of modeling and social feedback in acquisition of dart-throwing skill with 60 high school girls. Discusses results in terms of a social-cognitive view of athletic skill acquisition in which vicarious abstraction of a skill prepares students to learn self-regulatively during practice efforts. (Contains 20 references, 4 tables, and an appendix.) (Author/GCP)

Descriptors: Athletics, Feedback, High School Students, High Schools, Learning Processes, Modeling (Psychology), Observational Learning, Skill Development, Social Cognition

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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