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Weiss, Maureen R. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2008
Being asked to give the Charles H. McCloy research lecture is one of the highlights of the author's academic career. Although McCloy's primary area of expertise was measurement and the analysis of motor skills, he also shared an avid interest in youth development through sport and physical activity. In this article, the author features youth sport…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Observational Learning, Sport Psychology, Social Environment
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Kitsantas, Anastasia; Zimmerman, Barry J.; Cleary, Tim – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2000
Studies the influences of modeling and social feedback in acquisition of dart-throwing skill with 60 high school girls. Discusses results in terms of a social-cognitive view of athletic skill acquisition in which vicarious abstraction of a skill prepares students to learn self-regulatively during practice efforts. (Contains 20 references, 4…
Descriptors: Athletics, Feedback, High School Students, High Schools