Student Athletes: A Qualitative Study

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Research Study: Creating additional meaning from physical data activities to promote reflection and experiential learning for higher education student-athletes.

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The influence of physical activity data devices data on student-athletes through the use of focus groups, expert interviews, higher education student interviews, and observations. For a student athlete population enrolled in a four-year undergraduate degree program.

The qualitative design-based research study is set to explore ethnographic research of student-athletes to determine their abilities/impact of reflection on physical activity device data on performance in academic and athletic pursuits. The design based research intervention incorporates quasi-experimental
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Birchfield (2008) stated many promising initiatives do not make a broad impact on students and cannot be properly evaluated owing to a failure to address the practical constraints of today 's classrooms and informal learning contexts. Specifically, in order to see large-scale deployment on a two- to five-year horizon, learning environments must be inexpensive, mindful of typical site constraints (e.g., space, connectivity, infrastructure support), robust, and easily maintainable. It is essential to reach a balance between reliance upon leading-edge technologies and consideration of the real-world context in order to collect longitudinal data over a broad population of learners that will demonstrate the efficacy of these …show more content…
One of the greatest challenges has been sorting through scholarly works and deciding to refine my research from larger works of research. My searches have visited a lot of cognitive psychology research in order to gain a greater understanding of how learning could be more soundly supported through the use of physical activity devices in an instructional environment. I have also found myself becoming more comfortable with the abundance of education based scholarly research which supports interventions. I realize that I do not have to be wed to the K-12 audience in order to be able to implement a similar framework for an adult learner audience and that much of the research which I continue to find contains a framework which can be leveraged across a wide variety of disciplines which explore learning through sensorimotor activities and formal/informal learning

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