Interdisciplinarity, characterized by the cohesive integration of knowledge across disciplines, is increasingly recognized as a feature of expert sports coaching practice. Concurrently, the importance of coaches’ decision-making regarding the role and use of athletes’ errors during training has been emphasized from an increasingly interdisciplinary perspective. This study aimed to address the gap between current conceptualizations of effective training design and real-world application by seeking to (a) explore th…

Abstract Background and Objectives eHealth can help individuals improve or maintain autonomy in health management and decision-making, but using eHealth requires adequate eHealth literacy. Older adults tend to have low rates of eHealth literacy, which are worse among older Latinos in the U.S., especially those who are Spanish speaking. Evidence-based eHealth literacy interventions for older adult Spanish speakers are needed, but it is not clear which strategies are effective for this population. The objective of t…

A good start and early success with motor skills are important features of primary education when promoting lifelong physical activity. Notably, however, empirical guidance on optimal teaching methods is limited, especially regarding gender differences. To address this, we compared early success across several teaching methods based on different skill acquisition approaches. Five groups of 14 Kuwaiti children (N = 70) practiced a bowling task under different teaching conditions, namely: Solo, Social learning, Demo…

Learning theories provide philosophically informed, basic principles for understanding the mechanisms through which people learn based on a combination of field or laboratory studies. Unfortunately, however, there are several clear conflicts between theoretical approaches and common methods in teaching. Consequently, key challenges among teachers relate to knowing which theoretical approach to adopt and, therefore, methods to apply. This contradiction is even more confusing since some arguments from each approach …

Abstract With sport coaches adopting and working toward increasingly evidence-grounded approaches to practice, skill acquisition has appropriately become a critical area for consideration. As part of this growing interest in skill acquisition, the ecological dynamics approach has garnered attention amongst scholars and practitioners with myriad media (e.g. peer-reviewed articles, books, podcasts and social-media outputs) extolling its benefits. In doing this, however, the available guidance, advice and scholarship…