Research Impact: From the inclusion of key skills/competences in the Spanish Primary Education Curriculum in 2006, we still do not know the impact of that inclusion from teachers’ perspective. This validated survey was designed to […]
Category: Research
Publication: S&C Coaches’ Application of the Session Rating of RPE Method of Monitoring in Rugby Union
Research Impact: The session rating of perceived exertion (session-RPE) is a monitoring method used to quantify the training load that players and athletes are exposed to. Such quantification can assist with the optimisation of training […]
Publication: Primary school student and teacher perceptions of competency-based learning
Research Impact: Two hypothetical models for predicting competency-based learning were designed according to the perceptions of 8.513 primary school students and 1010 teachers from 110 spanish schools. The study allows to advance recommendations that could help to guide and facilitate […]
Publication: Faster, higher, stronger, older: Relative age effects and track and field athletics in the U.K.
Research Impact: Children who are born shortly after the cut-off date for age grades are more likely to achieve success in youth sport. We investigated this phenomenon, known as the relative age effect (RAE), in track […]
UL lead collaboration on ‘Children’s Sport Participation & Physical Activity’- Dr Cormac Powell
In Ireland, limited physical activity data exist that have been collected from representative samples of children and even fewer data collected where physical activity has been measured with precision1-5. The original Children’s Sport Participation and […]
Publication: The Effect of Whey Protein Supplementation on the Temporal Recovery of Muscle Function Following Resistance Training
Research Impact: The ability to sustain high-quality performance during training is a key component for optimal and effective athletic progression. During training programs efficient recovery between exercise bouts, is one aspect subject to modulation. Whey protein […]
Publication: Primary School Student and Teacher Perceptions of Competency-Based Learning
Research Impact: Two hypothetical models for predicting competency-based learning were designed according to the perceptions of 8.513 primary school students and 1010 teachers from 110 spanish schools. The study allows to advance recommendations that could help to guide and facilitate […]
Publication: The development of assessment policy in Ireland: a story of junior cycle reform
Research Impact: This paper maps assessment policy in a changing and contested assessment environment in the Republic of Ireland. The paper tells the story of assessment in junior cycle from the first progress report in […]
The Path to Developing Ordinary Resilience – Christopher Bryan
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett (playwright) When was the last time you were stressed? Now think about the last time were so stressed you couldn’t think […]
Publication: Lessons learned from a community engagement initiative within Irish higher education
Research Impact: This paper focuses on a community–university partnership built around a programme of study co-created by residents of a disadvantaged community and situated, for the most part, within that community. The impact of the research […]
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