Joseph Baker, Jean Côté, Bruce Abernethy
(2003). Learning from the Experts: Practice Activities of Expert Decision Makers in Sport. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport: Vol. 74, No. 3, pp. 342-347.
Murray Sidman, Constance K. Wynne, Russell W. Maguire, Thomas R. E. Barnes
Three adult subjects were taught a set of two-choice simultaneous discriminations, with three positive and three negative stimuli; all possible combinations of positive and negative stimuli yielded nine different pairs. The discriminations were repeatedly reversed and rereversed, the former positive...
Martin Conway, Qi Wang, Kazunori Hanyu, Shamsul Haque
Groups from Japan, China, Bangladesh, England, and the United States recalled, described, and dated specific autobiographical memories. When memories were plotted in terms of age-at-encoding highly similar life-span memory retrieval curves were observed: the periods of childhood amnesia and the remi...
Karl Erickson, Jean Côté, Jessica Fraser‐Thomas
What experiences are needed to become a high-performance coach? The present study addressed this question through structured retrospective quantitative interviews with 10 team- and 9 individual-sport coaches at the Canadian interuniversity-sport level. Minimum amounts of certain experiences were dee...
Rachel K. Clifton, Darwin W. Muir, Daniel H. Ashmead, Marsha G. Clarkson
The issue examined was whether infants require sight of their hand when first beginning to reach for, contact, and grasp objects. 7 infants were repeatedly tested between 6 and 25 weeks of age. Each session consisted of 8 trials of objects presented in the light and 8 trials of glowing or sounding o...
John R. Kirby, Robert Silvestri, Beth H. Allingham, Rauno Parrila et al.
The present study describes the self-reported learning strategies and study approaches of college and university students with and without dyslexia and examines the relationship of those characteristics with reading ability. Students with (n = 36) and without (n = 66) dyslexia completed tests measur...
Andy Wright, Jean Côté
The purpose of this study was to examine the development of six leader-athletes. In-depth qualitative interviews were used to explore the various activities that leader athletes engaged in from an early age as well as the roles and influences that peers, coaches, and parents played within these acti...
Claire Francis, Patricia E. Longmuir, Charles P. Boyer, Lars Bo Andersen et al.
BACKGROUND: The Canadian Assessment of Physical Literacy (CAPL) was conceptualized as a tool to monitor children's physical literacy. The original model (fitness, activity behavior, knowledge, motor skill) required revision and relative weights for calculating/interpreting scores were required. METH...
Donald S. Blough
Andressa Sleiman, Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir, Aud Kielland Elnes, Nicholas A. Gage et al.
Researchers have extensively studied performance feedback in the past 40 years. In organizational behavior management (OBM), feedback is a popular intervention component that can effectively increase and maintain performance across settings and target behaviors. The purpose of this meta-analysis is ...
Leisha Strachan, Jean Côté, Janice Deakin
The purpose of the current study was to examine two different trajectories of sport participation and explore any similarities or differences that may result regarding personal development and sport outcomes. Seventy-four youth athletes (40 “specializers” and 34 “samplers”) were recruited for the cu...
Aftab Opel, Syeda Saadia Ameer, Frances E. Aboud
Md. Kamrul Hasan, Mohd. Moniruzzaman Akhand
This article presents the findings of an interventionist study designed to examine the effects of product and process approach to writing on learners' performance. Two ESL classes of United International University in Bangladesh participated in the study; initially one class was instructed to follow...
Cecile McKee, Dana McDaniel, Jesse Snedeker
In an experiment designed to elicit restrictive relatives clauses, 28 children ranging in age from 2; 2 to 3; 10 provided a corpus of communicatively appropriate relative clauses. In evaluating this corpus, we found that most children produced mostly adult relative clauses most of the time. Detailed...
Anthony D. Okely, John J. Reilly, Mark S. Tremblay, Katharina E. Kariippanon et al.
Introduction 24-hour movement behaviours (physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep) during the early years are associated with health and developmental outcomes, prompting the WHO to develop Global guidelines for physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep for children under 5 years of ...