Exercise Sciences Education
Our mission is to develop and promote methods to enhance the lecture and laboratory exercise sciences pedagogy so as to improve students’ cognitive skills.
Fred W. Kolkhorst, Ph.D., FACSM, Chair Kimberly Henige, M.A., Co-Chair
This interest group is open to anyone interested in exercise sciences pedagogy. If interested in participating, please send an email to Fred W. Kolkhorst. Furthermore, we welcome comments and suggestions for the interest group as well as the web site.
Related Science Education Journals
Advances in Physiology Education (articles available to download in PDF format). Excellent site! Most relevant site on physiology education; also contains helpful APS Refresher Course articles.
International Journal of Science Education
Journal of College Science Teaching
Journal of Exercise Physiologyonline (articles available to download in PDF format). Besides scientific articles, there are numerous articles on promoting improvements in the exercise sciences pedagogy.
Journal of Research in Science Teaching (articles available to download in PDF format)
Journal of Science Teacher Education
Science Education (articles available to download in PDF format)
Related Science Education on-line articles
Cortright, R.N., H.L Collins, and S.E. DiCarlo. Peer instruction
enhanced meaningful learning: ability to solve novel problems. Advanced in Physiology
Education, 29: 107-111, 2005.
Cortright, R.N., H.L Collins, D.W. Rodenbaugh, and S.E. DiCarlo. Student
retention of course content is improved by collaborative-group testing. Advanced in Physiology
Education, 29: 101-108, 2003.
Kolkhorst, F.W.,
C.L. Mason, D.M. DiPasquale, P. Patterson, and M.J. Buono.
An inquiry-based learning model for an exercise physiology laboratory
course.
Advances in Physiology Education
25(2):45-50, 2001.
Science Education Information Links
A New View of Statistics, by Will G. Hopkins, Ph.D., FACSM. An outstanding on-line site for statistics.
Inquiry-Based Learning, Although not intended for a specific discipline, this site has a good discussion on inquiry-based learning.
National Science Education Standards, National Research Council, 1994.
National Science Foundation in a Changing World: The National Science Foundation's Strategic Plan, 1995
NSF Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement program. The CCLI-A&S program has funded several exercise physiology proposals to enhance laboratory instruction.
NSF Division of Undergraduate Education
National Science Teachers Association
Shaping the future: new expectations for undergraduate education in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (NSF 96-139), National Science Foundation, 1996.
Relevant NSF CCLI-A&I grants
Physiology Program using Computer-based Data Acquisition and Student-designed Investigations (DUE 0088725). C.B. Henry. January 2001 - December 2002.
Hands on the Human Body (DUE 0088437). S. Farrell, J.L. Schmalzel, A.J. Marchese, J.A. Kadlowec, S.A. Mandayam. March 2001 - February 2005.
Connecting Research and Teaching with Inquiry-Based Biology Laboratories (DUE 0088318). R.L. Londraville, P.H. Niewicrowski. June 2001 - May 2004.
Physiology of Exercise Laboratory Enhanced by Computer-Assisted Instruction and Inquiry-Based Investigation (DUE 9950622). F.W. Kolkhorst and M.J. Buono. July 1999-June 2003.
Integrative Workstations to Enhance Undergraduate Learning of Metabolic and Physiological Responses to Exercise (DUE 9950350) M. Kern. July 1999 - August 2001.
last updated April 06, 2004