Bridgewater State University

About: Bridgewater State University is a education organization based out in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 625 authors who have published 1223 publications receiving 21820 citations. The organization is also known as: BSU & Bridgewater State.

Engaging Students in Quality Games

Abstract: Promoting student engagement for all students in physical education, and specifically in game play, is a challenge faced by many middle and high school physical education teachers. Often, the games we play in physical education are not “good games” because, as early as middle school, some students are already resistant to playing specific games due to differences in skill level, experience, interests and histories with the games (e.g., “I always lose and you always win in badminton”). Students who are not appropriately challenged may get bored or they may get frustrated and ultimately become disengaged. This article will highlight two fundamental ways in which secondary physical educators can transform students' experiences during game play by a) designing modified games called adaptation games and by b) fostering the development of tactical decision-making competence during adaptation game play. This integration will be explored through the example of a badminton adaptation game called Hit and Touch Base...

Rinkside: new scholarly studies on ice hockey and society

Abstract: In the scholarly study of sport, ice hockey is a relatively new addition to the gallery of fascinating subjects that occupy the field. Until the early 1990s, only a handful of university-based scho...

MOOCs as facilitator: Online learning and women in STEM

Abstract: The scarcity of female students in computer science programs is one of the most troubling challenges facing the discipline today Enrollment of women in computer science undergraduate courses has fallen by over 50% from its high point in the 1980s, and is believed to be due, in part, to unwelcoming classroom environments We postulate that the virtual classroom offered by Massively Open Online Courses (“MOOC”s) may provide a more comfortable learning space for many female students This paper relates the experience of three female upper-level computer science majors when encountering a MOOC classroom for the first time

Separating Principles Below WKL0

Abstract: In this paper, we study Ramsey-type Konig's Lemma, written RWKL, using a technique introduced by Lerman, Solomon, and the second author. This technique uses iterated forcing to construct an omega-model satisfying one principle T_1 but not another T_2. The technique often allows one to translate a "one step" construction (building an instance of T_2 along with a collection of solutions to each computable instance of T_1) into an omega-model separation (building a computable instance of T_2 together with a Turing ideal where T_1 holds). We illustrate this translation by separating d-DNR from DNR (reproving a result of Ambos-Spies, Kjos-Hanssen, Lempp, and Slaman), and then apply this technique to separate RWKL$ from DNR (which has been shown separately by Bienvenu, Patey, and Schafer).