LETs GET TOGETHER

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LETs GET TOGETHER

• A Case for School University Research Partnerships

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• The Land Grant Model A small Epiphany

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Research Partnerships

• From an APE point of view, because all good PE
  is adapted (C. Sherrill)
• That is, addressing constraints
• adaptations and modifications

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University Constraints

• Teaching load Students
• Graduate students Where have all the GREs gone?
• Ivory tower isolation

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How Universities Define Success

• Scholarship
• Teaching?
• S/he who serves well seldom loses?
• How do I play the game?
• And the gold standard Is

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Constraints on Practitioners

• Its not my job
• Committees
• Coaching
• 2nd jobs
• Cautious (suspicious?!) administrators

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They Said it Couldnt be Done
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Practitioners and Researchers

• Can we break down barriers?find the road to

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Compatibility?(or at least common ground)

• Practitioners are obligated to employ best
  practices
• Researchers must conduct, disseminate, interpret

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Or mutual suspicion?

• Researchers may see practitioners as
  disinterested.
• Practitioners may see researchers who study
  topics of marginal importance, or write in a form
  that is unreadable.
• (Cicciarella, 2007)

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So Lets Get Together

• But How?

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Maybe we Need a Dating Service

• Really! We ought to be able to get together,
  right?

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Best Place for a First Date?Goal Long Lasting
Relationship

• A. Movie
• B. Baseball Game
• C. Mini Golf
• D. Rock Concert
• E. Lunch
• Hint Apply APE Principles

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Envelope Please

• The answer isMAHPERD!!

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Dont give up!All Relationships hit Road Bumps

• Apply Adapted Physical Education Principles

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UNIVERSITY

• Establish relationships (gulp!)
• State AHPERD
• State government. Pitfall?
• Most research is conducted by graduate students,
  so why not teachers?

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Surprise!

• They may actually want to work with you!

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Adaptations Modificationsfor teachers

• Sign up for class!
• Take the leapand persist!
• Bob M.
• Rose A.
• KEY Use your credibility with administrators

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MAINE RESEARCH HALL OF FAME

• Bob Lucy, Jayne chase, Linda Hansen, Bill Carr,
  Sue Lewis, Bob McCormick, Rose Angell, Dodi
  Saucier, Lisa Beaulieu, MaryEllen Schaper,

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HALL Cont.

• Todd Drinkwater, Margaret Levasseur, Pam
  Coulling, Phillippe Bourassaand maybe you.

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Anticipate the Key

• But Whats in it for us?

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Stories from Maine

• Where 51 of the territory is unorganized!

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SO WHO NEEDS PE?

• Numbers Facts
• Facts Drive Policy

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Lehnhard Lehnhard
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A PAINFUL SIGHTbut a silver lining
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L L Outcomes

• Media Interest
• Governors Council
• Local Impact

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The Case Of the Purloined Analysis

• ..or beware of Psychology bearing gifts

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Hierarchical Linear Modeling(HLM)

• Isnt development what were all about?
• Then why not measure it?

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HLM WITH REPEATED MEASURES

• Assessments nested within students.
• Level One Multiple assessments over time.
• Level Two Pupil characteristics

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Benefits of HLM

• Can account for missing assessments
• Models individual growth curves

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Example of HLM
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Boys and Girls Growth Curves
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4th v 7th Grades
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Growth Rates for Sports
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BMI and Growth Rates
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PACER STUDY Key findings and Implications

• PACER scores increased from 29 to 49
• Substantial summer drop off
• Sports participants Intercept v slope
• Boys and girls Intercept v slope
• BMI
• PACER as instructional tool?
• But what to do about summer?

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PACER STUDYFuture Directions

• 5 yrs of data collected
• Data on 840 additional children
• Includes children with disabilities
• Go statewideset up data clearinghouse
• Establish partnerships (Relationships?!)
• Seek funding to do so.

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General Conclusions

• Conventional wisdom is for conventional minds.
• Its about relationshipsand relationships must
  be nurtured.
• Researchers Its okay to tie shoes and wipe
  noses.
• Service and research can be compatiblemaybe
  combined
• Why not be an author

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Conclusions (cont.)

• Take the long view. Make the investments
• The profession needs Bob M.s Rose A.s
• You do not need a federal grant to do research
  that has impact.

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Is there a Broader Principle Here?

• Teachers can use scientific evidence to make
  curricular decisions

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Scientific Method and Teaching Physical Education

• Scientific thinking in practice is what
  characterizes reflective teachers.
• (Stanovich and Stanovich, 2003)

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Physical Educators as Action Researchers

• Action research is research into ones own
  practice with an eye to improving that practice
  (Stokes, 1997)

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What do you say, Partner?

• Teachers, like scientists are ruthless
  pragmatists
• Researchers and teachers are kindred spirits, an
  important fact that can forge a winning coalition
  (Stanovich and Stanovich, 2003)

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A Word of AdviceFrom a Famous Mainer

• Stopping a Piece of work just because its hard,
  either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad
  idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you dont
  feel like it.
• Ans Next slide

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