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Exercise immunology: The compelling link between physical activity and the body’s defense system
Highlights This review has highlighted the following key points regarding exercise immunology: Acute exercise is an immune system adjuvant that improves defense activity and metabolic… -
Problem solving skills versus knowledge acquisition: the historical dispute that split problem-based learning into two camps
Abstract This paper sheds light on an intellectual dispute on the purpose of problem-based learning that took place in the 1970s between two major figures… -
Quality Interactions in Early Childhood Education and Care Center Outdoor Environments
Abstract Quality interactions are crucial for children’s learning and development. Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) centers have the opportunity to support children’s learning and… -
Multiple-true-false questions reveal more thoroughly the complexity of student thinking than multiple-choice questions: a Bayesian item response model comparison
Background Within undergraduate science courses, instructors often assess student thinking using closed-ended question formats, such as multiple-choice (MC) and multiple-true-false (MTF), where students provide answers… -
What Do We Mean by Blended Learning?
The term blended learning is used frequently, but there is ambiguity about what is meant. What do we mean by blended learning? What, how and… -
Study protocol for the optimisation, feasibility testing and pilot cluster randomised trial of Positive Choices: a school-based social marketing intervention to promote sexual health, prevent unintended teenage pregnancies and address health inequalities in England
Background Since the introduction of the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy (TPS), England’s under-18 conception rate has fallen by 55%, but a continued focus on prevention is… -
School-University Links for Evidence-Informed Practice
Abstract A range of studies has identified barriers to evidence-informed practice in schools, many of which recommend school-university links as a means for removing these… -
Journal of Sport and Health Science (JSHS) – Special issue on physical literacy
Introduction The concept of physical literacy seems to be an abstract idea. Since it emerged in the literature about 25 years ago, it has been… -
Associations between domains of physical literacy by weight status in 8- to 12-year-old Canadian children
Background The Canadian Assessment of Physical Literacy (CAPL) is divided into four domains (Physical Competence, Daily Behaviour, Motivation and Confidence, and Knowledge and Understanding) and… -
Early life opportunities for prevention of diabetes in low and middle income countries
Background The global burden of diabetes and other non-communicable diseases is rising dramatically worldwide and is causing a double poor health burden in low- and… -
The metabolic equivalents of one-mile walking by older adults – implications for health promotion
Background Instructions for older adults regarding the intensity of walking may not elicit an intensity to infer health gains. We recorded the metabolic equivalents (METs)… -
Holistic physical exercise training improves physical literacy among physically inactive adults – a pilot intervention study
Background Physical literacy (PL), given as a multidimensional construct, is considered a person’s capacity and commitment to a physically active lifestyle. We investigated the effect…