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Teaching How Official History Is Made: State Standards as Primary Sources
(Oxford University Press, 2024-06)This article traces the controversial rise and uses of state history standards for K-12 education and offers teachers a flexible lesson plan that encourages them to draw upon the standards in their own state to help students ... -
Acute influence of resistance exercise on basketball shooting mechanics and accuracy
(Frontiers Media, 2023-10-25)The purpose of the present study was to examine the acute impact of resistance exercise on basketball shooting mechanics and accuracy. Ten resistance-trained recreationally active men with previous basketball playing ... -
Recovery Methods in Basketball: A Systematic Review
(MDPI, 2023-11-20)Although different strategies have been implemented to manage recovery-fatigue status in athletes, there is still a lack of consensus on which recovery protocols have the greatest impact and effectiveness when implemented ... -
Use of a Mobile-Assisted Telehealth Regimen to Increase Exercise in Transplant Candidates: A Home-Based Prehabilitation Pilot and Feasibility Trial
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2023-07-24)INTRODUCTION: Physical fitness assessed by the Liver Frailty Index (LFI) and 6-minute walk test (6MWT) informs the prognosis of liver transplant candidates, although there are limited data on its reversibility after ... -
“On an island by myself”: implications for the inclusion of autistic students in self-contained classrooms in public elementary schools
(Frontiers Media, 2023-09-26)Introduction Autistic students have limited access to inclusive classes and activities in their schools. Principals and special education teachers who directly teach and administer programs for autistic elementary students ... -
Creatine as a Therapeutic Target in Alzheimer's Disease
(Elsevier, 2023-09-29)Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease, affecting approximately 6.5 million older adults in the United States. Development of AD treatment has primarily centered on developing pharmaceuticals ... -
Gastrointestinal cell injury and perceived symptoms after running the Boston Marathon
(Frontiers Media, 2023-10-16)Gastrointestinal (GI) disturbances are a prevalent cause of marathon related complaints, and in extreme cases can promote life-threatening conditions such as exertional heat stroke. Our aim was to study intestinal cell ... -
Position-specific differences in countermovement vertical jump force-time metrics in professional male basketball players
(Frontiers Media, 2023-07-20)The countermovement vertical jump (CVJ) is one of the most commonly implemented non-invasive and time-efficient testing modalities for lower-body neuromuscular performance assessment. With more practitioners having access ... -
Biomechanical characteristics of proficient free-throw shooters—markerless motion capture analysis
(Frontiers, 2023-08-02)The winning game outcome in basketball is partially contingent on the team's ability to secure and make more free-throw shooting attempts, especially close to the end of the game. Thus, the purpose of the present study was ... -
A Narrative Study of Cultural Identity Construction of African Refugee College Students in the Midwest
(American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2021-04-10)There are few African refugee college students in the United States and little is known regarding how they construct their cultural identities. This study sought to examine the cultural identity of four African refugee ... -
The Place of World History in South Dakota’s Failed 2021 Social Studies Standards Revision Process
(World History Connected, 2023-02-02)An alarming feature of public education in the United States since 2020 has been a highly coordinated and fiercely combative movement from the right seeking to root out and remove Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the schools. ... -
Introduction to the Forum: Standards and World History
(World History Connected, 2023-02-02)World historians largely reject Eurocentric approaches to history by embracing a global approach to course content focusing on connections and exchanges across time and space. But this can lead to a multitude of organizational ... -
The Hillsdale Effect: South Dakota’s Troubling New Social Studies Standards
(National Council for the Social Studies, 2023-11)South Dakota’s teachers will face difficult challenges of implementation, pedagogy, and content when their state’s new, politically influenced, social studies standards go into effect in 2024. -
Religious Education and the Anglo-World: The Impact of Empire, Britishness, and Decolonisation in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand
(Brill, 2020)Focusing on Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, “Religious Education and the Anglo-World” historiographically examines the relationship between empire and religious education. In each case the analysis centres on the ... -
The Cultural Responsiveness of the Communicative and Task-Based Instructional Approaches to African English Language Learners in a College ESL Classroom: A Qualitative Case Study
(2023-11)In the United States school education system, there are students who are identified as English Language Learners (ELLs). ELLs are multilingual students who speak any other language apart from English at home. While majority ... -
Repeat sprint fatigue and altered neuromuscular performance in recreationally trained basketball players
(Public Library of Science, 2023-07-17)The primary aim of the present study was to investigate how the fatigue induced through a repeat sprint protocol acutely affected different measures of neuromuscular performance. Recreationally trained basketball players ... -
Repeat sprint fatigue and altered neuromuscular performance in recreationally trained basketball players
(Public Library of Science, 2023-07-17)The primary aim of the present study was to investigate how the fatigue induced through a repeat sprint protocol acutely affected different measures of neuromuscular performance. Recreationally trained basketball players ... -
Unilaterally Induced Quadriceps Fatigue during Sustained Submaximal Isometric Exercise Does Not Alter Contralateral Leg Extensor Performance
(MDPI, 2023-06-19)This study investigated the effects of fatiguing unilateral exercise on the ipsilateral, exercised, and contralateral, non-exercised limb’s post-exercise performance in males and females. Ten males and ten females performed ... -
Fatigue-Induced Neuromuscular Performance Changes in Professional Male Volleyball Players
(MDPI, 2023-06-16)The purpose of the present study was to assess pre-post practice changes in countermovement vertical jump (CVJ) force-time metrics and to determine the relationship between internal and external load variables within a ... -
Rethinking the time spent at school: Could flexibility improve engagement and performance for students and teachers?
(Springer, 2023-05-03)Is it possible to reduce the time students spend in classrooms and schools? Would such a reduction be better for learning and retaining teachers? How should learning be more flexibly enacted in the post-pandemic era? This ...