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Physical Educators’ Qualifications and Instructional Practices Toward Students With Disabilities

Jaehun Jung, Layne Case, Samuel W. Logan, and Joonkoo Yun

( Canales & Maldonado, 2018 ; Lee, 2018 ; Sirait, 2016 ). For example, obtaining a bachelor’s degree in PE from an institution of higher education and gaining certification from the state agency are crucial elements of highly qualified physical educators ( Napper-Owen et al., 2008 ). Previous literature

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Functional Degrees of Freedom

Zong-Ming Li

Mechanical degrees of freedom (DOF) are defined as the minimum number of independent coordinates needed to describe a system’s position. The human musculoskeletal system has many mechanical DOF through which countless movements are accomplished. In the motor control field, one of the aspirations is to understand how the many DOF are organized for movement execution—the so-called DOF problem. Natural movements are characterized by the coordination of the DOF such that few vary independently. The concept of functional degrees of freedom (fDOF) is introduced to describe the very limited DOF of purposeful, coordinated movements. Deterministic (i.e., constraint satisfaction) and statistical (i.e., principal component analysis) approaches are used to determine fDOF. In contrast to DOF as a mechanical descriptor, fDOF emphasizes the mechanisms of human movements and corroborates our search for the solution to the DOF problem.

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Freezing Degrees of Freedom During Motor Learning: A Systematic Review

Anderson Nascimento Guimarães, Herbert Ugrinowitsch, Juliana Bayeux Dascal, Alessandra Beggiato Porto, and Victor Hugo Alves Okazaki

(bones, joints, muscles, etc.), which have countless combination possibilities, can be controlled by a single effector system (central nervous system). For Bernstein ( 1967 ), the solution to this problem would be mastery over the degrees of freedom (DF), known as the independent components of the

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Controlling Degrees of Freedom in Learning a Taekwondo Kick

Anderson Nascimento Guimarães, Herbert Ugrinowitsch, Juliana Bayeux Dascal, and Victor Hugo Alves Okazaki

coordinate movements and generate specific motor responses ( Turvey, 1990 ). This situation, which demonstrates the complexity of coordinated motor skills control, has been known as the degrees of freedom (DF) problem ( Bernstein, 1967 ). The DF represent an infinite number of different ways and combinations

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Abundant Degrees of Freedom Are Not a Problem

Mark L. Latash

redundancy as the central problem of motor control. He wrote that the central problem of motor control is in the elimination of redundant degrees of freedom ( Bernstein, 1967 ). Similar problems emerge for other tasks and at other levels of analysis—for example, how does the CNS define muscle forces and

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Content Analysis of Sport Management Graduate Degree Programs in the United States

David Pierce, James Johnson, John Miller, and Benjamin Downs

; Seifried, 2015 ). A challenging, yet fundamental curricular issue for many sport management programs is how to prepare students with the skills and competencies to be a successful professional. With over 200 graduate and over 400 undergraduate degree programs in the United States ( North American Society

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Co-Branding Through an International Double Degree Program: A Single Case Study in Sport Management Education

Tim Ströbel, B. David Ridpath, Herbert Woratschek, Norm O’Reilly, Markus Buser, and Michael Pfahl

an increasingly competitive global sport environment. Specifically, an innovative co-branding strategy through a double degree program between two long-standing sport management programs, one in North America (Ohio University, United States) and one in Europe (University of Bayreuth, Germany), is

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The Benefits and Challenges of Kinesiology as a Pre-Allied Health Degree

Timothy A. Brusseau

careers in medicine, dentistry, nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, chiropractic, and so on. In fact, some programs appear to have both a pre-allied health track and a more traditional kinesiology track in their degree programs. Kinesiology as a pre-allied health program and the associated

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Longitudinal Analysis of Stakeholder Attitudes Toward External Review of Sport Management Master’s Degree Programs

Emily Dane-Staples and Katharine A. Burakowski

integrity of academic programs ( Boone, 2015 ; Reeve, 2010 ; Yiamouyiannis et al., 2013 ). Many disciplines utilize their national organizations to address the A-List as these organizations often provide professional development opportunities, guidance for degree programs, and in some cases, an external

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The Influence of a Master’s Degree on the Socialization of Two Physical Education Professionals

Karen Lux Gaudreault, K. Andrew R. Richards, Kelly Simonton, and Angela Simonton

of doctoral students and faculty members with comparatively less attention being given to master’s students. Whereas most PETE doctoral students pursue careers in academia following degree completion ( Boyce, Lund, & O’Neil, 2015 ), individuals pursue master’s degrees for a variety of reasons