Mark Urtel

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Examining the Impact of Intramural Youth Sports on SEL (social and emotional learning)

The discipline of kinesiology can best be defined as the science and study of human movement. Human movement can be expressed as physical activity, sport, exercise, or play. The kinesiology department is unique in that they look at this across the lifespan also for individuals of all ability levels. Professor Urtel primarily focuses on school aged youth. He leans heavily onto the public health theory of “doing the most good for the most people.” Realizing that most of school aged youth spend most of their waking hours during the week at school, that’s a natural place to look at programs and interventions to not only focus on the health outcomes that children can acquire from being physically active consistently, but also the academic readiness and positive behavioral outcomes associated with physical activity. Professor Urtel and his colleagues are looking at recasting physical education that’s offered in schools into a more developed, comprehensive school physical activity program that optimizes the amount of times children can have physical activity interventions to produce these academic readiness and positive behavioral outcomes.

Professor Urtel’s translation of research into better physical activity programs at schools for children is another excellent example of how IUPUI’s faculty members are TRANSLATING their RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE.

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    K-12 Physical Education: The Principal perspective
    (National Teacher Education Journal, 2011) Urtel, Mark G.; Vogel, Nicole
    The purpose of this research was to examine how K-12 Principals view physical education. Additionally, this survey-based project examined the extent to which location and level of a building impacted the Principals attitude or actions. Basic demographic information was captured from each respondent (N = 130) and then factorial ANOVA was used to determine significant interactions; again, based on location and/or level. Preliminary results indicate that Indiana K-12 building Principals, irrespective of location or level held favorable attitudes toward physical education and that their actions supported those attitudes. In select instances there were significant interactions in regard to location and level toward physical education. Namely as they related to (a) dodgeball (b) coaching expertise (c) recognition and (d) professional development.
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    Musings and reflections from first-year department chairs; an extension of the NCA
    (Academic Chairpersons Conference, 2017) Urtel, Mark G.; Jowers-Barber, Sandra; Smith, Stacey
    Come and engage in conversation with 3 beginning chairs who participated in the 2016 NCA as they muse about the good, bad, and ugly of their first year. Hear about how challenges were overcome and opportunities were created to help them become better leaders.
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    Physical Education in the COVID Era: Considerations for Online Program Delivery Using the Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program Framework
    (Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2021) Webster, Collin A.; D'Agostino, Emily; Urtel, Mark G.; McMullen, Jaimie; Culp, Brian; Killian, Chad; Egan Loiacono, Cate A.
    In the wake of COVID-19, online physical education (OLPE) has become essential to the sustainability of school physical education programs. The purpose of this article is to consider factors that may be influential in efforts to deliver OLPE to students. The comprehensive school physical activity program model is used to frame a multicomponent conceptualization of OLPE and its goals and outcomes. Central to this framing is the intersectionality of school physical education, the family, and the community. This article provides a platform for physical education teacher educators and researchers to advance OLPE in its support of both the educational and public health benefits of high-quality physical education programs.
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    Assessing academic performance between traditional and distance education course formats
    (Journal of Educational Technology & Society, 2008) Urtel, Mark G.
    The goal of this study was to explore whether differences in student academic indicators exist between taking a course face-to-face (F2F) and taking a course via distance education (DE). Three hundred and eighty five students were enrolled in a course offered, both, as F2F (n = 116) and as DE (n = 269). Course content, instructor, textbook adopted, and assessment methods were consistent between the two course delivery formats. Final grades, DFW rates, and end of term course and instructor evaluations were used as the outcome indicators. In addition, student demographic information was factored into data analyses. Results indicated that there was a statistically significant difference in final grade, DFW rates, and end of term course evaluation response rates between the course offerings. Further analysis suggested that freshman grade performance was significantly different between course offerings. Implications and policy suggestions regarding distance education will be discussed.
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    Re-casting the Annual Faculty Review
    (New Prairie Press, 2020) Urtel, Mark G.
    This session will highlight how one department chair flipped the annual faculty review from a top-down administrative process focused on merit pay to a faculty-centered process focused on professional development and advancement. Following will be discussion on the results of the anonymous survey distributed to faculty from this new process.
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    On-Line Quizzing and Its Effect on Student Engagement and Academic Performance
    (2006-10) Urtel, Mark G.; Bahamonde, Rafael E.; Mikesky, Alan E.; Udry, Eileen M.; Vessely, Jeff S.
    The goal of this study was to determine if on-line out-of-class quizzing would lead to increases in (a) classroom engagement (b) academic performance and (c) preparation perception of college students. Twenty-four sophomore level students enrolled in a required functional anatomy course participated in this study. Results from this study indicate that on-line quizzing had a statistically significant impact on some indicators of student classroom engagement. However, on-line quizzing had no statistically significant impact on academic performance as evidenced by test scores. Finally, student perceptions, as a result of on-line quizzing significantly improved.
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    Advocating for Your Department through a School Merger: The Chair Perspective
    (Wiley, 2019) Urtel, Mark; Cecil, Amanda K.; Kinesiology, School of Physical Education and Tourism Management
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    A Case Study in ePortfolio Implementation: A Department-Wide Perspective
    (2019) Fallowfield, Stephen M.; Urtel, Mark; Swinford, Rachel; Angermeier, Lisa; Plopper, Allison S.; Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Sciences
    This case study documents the trials and tribulations over a 3-year span of one academic department in implementing the ePortfolio as a high-impact practice to its undergraduate students. Failures and successes will be introduced with the resulting lessons learned applied to our current efforts. Pivotal instances that allowed the project partners to gain clarity about the design and implementation of an ePortfolio will be expressed to better understand our journey. The root of our collaborative efforts was based on the product versus process conversation around ePortfolios. Once our mindset shifted, we were able to embrace a more student-centered process ePortfolio that is threaded throughout our curriculum and not sporadically addressed as an add-on assignment.
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    A One-Week, Unique, and Authentic Leadership Development Camp for Undergraduate Students
    (2019-05) Swinford, Rachel; Plopper, Allison; Bradley, Jay; Urtel, Mark; Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Sciences
    Annually, students from the Department of Kinesiology attend a 1-week residential leadership camp. Prior to attending the camp, students complete a self-evaluation of perceived leadership skills. Students are in small teams in which they lead their peers through a series of problem solving activities. For this study, students (N=314) completed the survey again at the end of the 1-week leadership development camp. Paired t-test statistical analysis revealed a significant change in 14 out of the 20 dimensions (p < .001). Findings of this study suggest students perceive an increase in their leadership skills following a 1- week leadership development camp.
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    Internships in Kinesiology: Reconsidering Best Practices
    (Human Kinetics, 2018) Urtel, Mark; Michaliszyn, Sara F.; Stiemsma, Craig; Physical Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
    The purpose of this paper is to summarize the 2018 American Kinesiology Association preworkshop on best practices in internships. This preworkshop contained 2 keynote speakers, 5 ignite sessions, and 6 round-table discussions looking at the status of internships in departments of kinesiology, nationally. It is clear that kinesiology does not have a common practice for implementing internships. Given the many variables in respect to offering an internship, such as curricular mandates, faculty workload policy, community partner availability, program outcomes, student learning objectives, and assessment tools, this is not surprising. Perhaps we should rethink the notion that there is a set of best practices that guide internship development and consider the possibility that internships will look different at various institutions for valid reasons.