INTRODUCTION: Recently, a large amount of research has been focused on the effect of movement variability on human performance in sport. It is now generally accepted that
specific amounts of variability are essential to ...
McGarr, Oliver(Design Education Research Group, Loughborough Design School, 2011)
Senior Cycle Technology subjects in Irish post-primary schools have recently been updated. One subject, Technical Drawing, has been replaced with a new subject called Design and Communication Graphics (DCG). The new subject ...
When attempting to integrate any Information and Communications Technology (ICT) based resource into Post-Primary Schools (High Schools) many potential barriers must be considered. Importantly, many of these barriers revolve ...
McGarr, Oliver; Moody, Janet(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2010)
This study aimed to examine student teachers’ opinions of changes to reflective practice requirements during a five‐week teaching practice placement as part of a one‐year postgraduate initial teacher education programme. ...
Doody, Catriona M.; Doody, Owen(Mark Allen Healthcare, 2012)
Obesity is a significant health problem for people with intellectual disability, as they
report a 59% higher rate of obesity as compared with those in the general population
(Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, ...
INTRODUCTION: No study to date has reported if and how the use of body markers used in three dimensional optical tracking methods to study swing kinematics in golf affect movement performance. Egret et al. (2004) studied ...
The purpose of this study was to develop a novel protocol to be used in assessing
performance outcomes in projectile sports. This study also wanted to establish if
variability within a movement pattern (throwing) is ...
McGarr, Oliver; Seery, Niall(Design and Technology Association, 2011)
Technology education in Irish post-primary schools is
undergoing significant change. In recent years the syllabi
of all technology-related subjects have been revised. A
new subject, Design and Communication Graphics, ...
Technology was introduced as a Leaving Certificate subject in 2007 after several
years of development and is now one of four senior cycle technology-based subjects
on the curriculum. To the outside observer, its introduction ...
This thesis is comprised of three papers that aim to examine the literature surrounding physiotherapy interventions in non-ambulatory people with Multiple Sclerosis (PwMS), to gather information from a pilot scheme of the ...