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Showing 1 to 20 of 125 for “"student athlete"”.
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Student-Athlete: A Study of Student-Athlete Workload Compared with Traditional Student Workload
… to collect and analyze data on the workload of students and student-athletes to determine if there is a significant difference in the workloads of student-athletes compared with non-athletes, including undergraduate and graduate students. It was hypothesized that student-athletes would spend …
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Examining student athlete attitudes towards art therapy
<p>College student athletes, as an underserved clinical population with documented barriers and stigma attached to seeking mental health treatment, might present as a suitable group to expose to art therapy as a treatment modality. To gauge interest in art therapy, this student researcher recruited …
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Grit and Student-Athlete Performance: A Case Study.
… to investigate the relationship between grit and student-athlete academic and sport performance. An exploratory study was conducted using a case study methodology, utilizing both quantitative and qualitative research. The Grit Short Scale (Duckworth, 2007) was employed on student-athletes at an …
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Factors That Influence Student-Athlete Academic Major Selection
… explored four identified factors that influence student-athlete academic major selection. The purpose of this study was to explore how each identified factor influenced student-athlete academic major selection, including athletic coaches, student-athlete identity, academic advising, and career …
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COMPETING IDENTITIES: INTERSECTIONALITY AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT-ATHLETE BELONGING
… explore the complex experiences of high school student-athletes, especially considering the growing investment in youth sports and its implications on students’ mental health and identity development. This mixed-methods research study delves into the effects of intersectionality on high school …
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Student-athlete perceptions of increased internationalization in college athletics
… of the increase in the number of international student-athletes in Division I college athletics on the experience of international and domestic student-athletes, specifically by investigating the perceptions of female athletes participating in sports that have high percentages of international …
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Examining perceptions of leadership and the student-athlete experience
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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A Study of International Student-Athlete Recruitment in Intercollegiate Tennis
… was to explore how coaches recruit international students and how ISAs secure positions on men's or women's NCAA Division I tennis teams. Participants were chosen based on their experience with recruiting ISAs or being recruited as an ISA. A phenomenological framework was used to look at these …
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Modeling collegiate student-athlete sport performance via self-report measures
Purpose: Optimizing athlete performance is the central focus of players, coaches, and support staffs alike. For years, monitoring the stressors encumbering athletes has focused on the injury-risk dimension and has failed to look at sport-specific performance, the ultimate end goal. Self-report …
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Female student-athlete swimmers : lived experiences in a South African context
… the lived experiences of South African female student-athlete swimmers who are in the process of competing at an elite level. A qualitative research approach was utilised in this study, with interpretative phenomenological approach as its paradigmatic point of departure. One in-depth …
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An Exploratory Study of Student-Athlete Preparedness for Life After College
… on intercollegiate athletic departments and student-athletes nationwide; however, the preparedness of student-athletes for life after college is often sidelined. Previous research regarding student-athlete preparedness neglected to consider multiple dimensions at once, such as those that only …
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Taking off the mask: seeing the person behind the student-athlete
… to understand what it takes to compete as a student-athlete at a high level. It also makes suggestions on what athletics departments can do to better aid student-athletes and produce the all-around person/citizen in life. Collegiate athletics are more than the competition on the field, court, …
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Discouraging Truth: Pre-Performance Examinations and Collegiate Student- Athlete Mental Health
… examinations (PPEs) for collegiate student-athletes support holistic student-athlete health. Specifically, the study evaluates PPE documents within the ambient environment of intercollegiate athletics and uses ambient rhetoric to demonstrate how PPE documents reify values from the …
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Advising the academically underprepared first-year community college student athlete for transferability
Student athletes attending and competing at a two-year community college often aspire to compete their last 2 years at a Division I four-year college or university. The impact of advising community college athletes can influence their ability to transfer to an NCAA Division I institution. Students …
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Predicting Student-Athlete Academic Success With Preadmission, Social-Contextual, and Sport Variables
… are required by the NCAA to ensure student-athletes make progress towards earning a degree. In 2004, The NCAA created the Academic Progress Rate (APR) metric to assess if universities were facilitating academic success for student-athletes. Athletic programs that fail to meet an APR …
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THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A MEASURE OF COLLEGE STUDENT ATHLETE INTEGRATION
Research has shown that a student's level of institutional integration is a better predictor of college persistence than academic performance (Pascarella & Terenzini, 1980). Tinto (1975) proposed that institutional integration is the student's perception of his/her fit to the university he/she is …
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Framing Student-Athlete Compensation: A Thematic Analysis of California Senate Bill 206
… placed that power at risk. The bill will allow student-athletes to receive compensation for their name, image and likeness in the state of California, and has influenced other states to bring forth legislation of their own. The NCAA announced on October 29, 2019, that it would change its …
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Student Athlete Retention and Performance in Agriculture: An Analysis of a Mentorship Program
… of the current mentoring program, increasing student retention in agriculture, and improving the transition for high school students going into college, this study utilizes a questionnaire comprised of seven questions to determine how 14 former and current student-athletes that were enrolled …
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Chinese student-athlete? A socio-cultural examination of education for elite Chinese athletes
… and interview data to study Chinese athletes, their formal education, and athletic training in the context of the neoliberal and transnational reforms occurring within China’s sports industry. I read Chinese government policy documents in the original Mandarin Chinese and conducted …
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