Research Impact: The purpose of this study was to design and validate an assessment instrument to explore how primary school students perceive their competency-based learning. Main findings showed that students from year three to year six […]
Category: Publications
Teaching and learning sport education: A self-study of a teacher educator and pre-service teachers
Research Impact: This study conveys that Sport Education is a curriculum and instructional model lacking a thorough exploration that can establish an even more robust and sophisticated model. Appreciating the research conducted on Sport Education, we […]
A Systematic Road to Publication – Emmet Crowley
In this blog, I hope I can shed light on the publication process by outlining my experiences and what I learnt, along the way, from this experience. My first publication “The Impact of Resistance Training […]
Too much freedom and autonomy in the enactment of assessment?
Research Impact : The cautious climate in Ireland of teachers being involved in assessing students’ work is delaying the enactment of such curricula and, more specifically for this paper, currently hindering associated assessment processes. It is […]
The Impact of Resistance Training on Swimming performance: A Systematic Review
Research Impact: The literature shows that for optimal transfer, specificity, low volume, high velocity/force resistance training programmes are optimal. Stroke length is best achieved through resistance training with low repetitions at a high velocity/force. Resisted swims […]
Learning to teach sport education: Investigating a Pre-Service Teacher’s Knowledge Development
Research Impact: Learning to teach SE and other curriculum and instructional models is more than learning how to deliver models of teaching. Subsequently, teacher educators need to allow for a continuing growth of understanding where […]
Behavioral determinants of Physical Activity across the life course (DEDIPAC)
Condello, G., Puggina, A., Aleksovska, K., Buck, C., Burns, C., Cardon, G., Carlin, A., Simon, C., Ciarapica, D., Coppinger, T. and Cortis, C., D’Haese S., De Craemer, M., Di Blasio, A., Hansen, S., Iacoviello, […]
Professional development Experiences and Organisational Socialization
Book Chapter Publication: Parker, M., Patton, K. and Tannehill, D. “Professional development experiences and organizational socialization”. In: Richards, K.A.R., & Gaudreault, K. (2017). Teacher socialization in physical education. London: Routledge.
Myokines release after exercise and influence on metabolism. Implications for Type 2 Diabetes
Research Impact: Skeletal muscle represents the largest organ in the body and has recently been recognised as having an endocrine function, whereby, proteins are synthesised in the muscle and released to have an effect on the […]
Validity of Self Report Measures of Physical Activity in University Students
Research Impact – The regular monitoring and surveillance of population levels of physical activity (PA) is of huge importance, especially in the tertiary level (i.e. universities, institutes of technology) sector as it continues to grow. […]
