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Thomas Birkedal Stenqvist; Geir Øvrevik – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2024
Learning in the mountains during winter prepares upcoming guides for tough environments by placing demands on their energy intake and enabling them to cope with a complex environment. However, few studies have explored energy intake and expenditure in outdoor education. Thus, energy intake during a 24-hour winter mountain course was investigated…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Climate, Training, Environmental Influences
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Wells, Gayle; Chandler, Resa; Watterson, Tom; Fiaud, Vanessa; Beaudet, Bob – International Journal of Kinesiology in Higher Education, 2020
In 2010, The National Association of Kinesiology in Higher Education (NAKHE) began a summer program to develop leadership in kinesiology professionals. The Leadership Development Workshop (LDW) was designed to help young academic professionals develop skills for leadership advancement in higher education. In 2017, NAKHE decided to host the LDW in…
Descriptors: Kinetics, Higher Education, Physical Education Teachers, Leadership Training
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Phage, Itumeleng B.; Lemmer, Miriam; Hitge, Mariette – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2017
Students' graph comprehension may be affected by the background of the students who are the readers or interpreters of the graph, their knowledge of the context in which the graph is set, and the inferential processes required by the graph operation. This research study investigated these aspects of graph comprehension for 152 first year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graphs, Comprehension, Cognitive Processes
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Young, William; Rodger, Matthew; Craig, Cathy M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
Many studies have examined the processes involved in recognizing types of human action through sound, but little is known about whether the physical characteristics of an action (such as kinetic and kinematic parameters) can be perceived and imitated from sound. Twelve young healthy adults listened to recordings of footsteps on a gravel path taken…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Kinetics, Physical Characteristics, Cognitive Processes
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Akerson, Valarie, Ed.; Sahin, Ismail, Ed. – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2020
"Proceedings of International Conference on Studies in Education and Social Sciences" includes full papers presented at the International Conference on Studies in Education and Social Sciences (IConSES) which took place on October 15-18, 2020 in Chicago, IL. The aim of the conference is to offer opportunities to share ideas, to discuss…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Higher Education, Hispanic American Students, Vocational Education
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White, Peter A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
In 4 experiments, participants made judgments about forces exerted and resistances put up by objects involved in described interactions. Two competing hypotheses were tested: (1) that judgments are derived from the same knowledge base that is thought to be the source of perceptual impressions of forces that occur with visual stimuli, and (2) that…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Hypothesis Testing, Evaluative Thinking, Heuristics