One of the things that I am keen to do at Musselburgh is get the school
recognised as a centre for micro and action research. I think it is really
important that schools remain abreast of the latest education research and use
it to best inform their practice. I also think the best education research is research
that is conducted in partnership between schools and higher education
institutes. Last year we teamed up with Glasgow University
One very exciting project that I have been working on in the background for nearly two years is to try and fund a research project linked to dance mats and exercise. We recently teamed up with Herriot Watt University to take this project forward and over the summer we found out that our funding had come through for the project from the Chief Scientists Office. We had a meeting about the project today and we hope to appoint a project development office to take this project forward in early September.
During the project we will:
- Sample activity and active living data from approximately 150 S3 girls. We will do this via questionnaire.
- Collect data on the benefits of exergaming using dance mats from a sample size of 20 volunteers from within S3.
- Conduct a study into active participation using dancemats.
- The project will take place in two phases. Between October – December and January – March!
Our next challenge is to identity additional funding to increase the amount of mats in order to make this project sustainable for class use after the initial research phase.
This and all future post related to this project will be catagorised and tagged with ‘dancemats’.
Many institutions limit access to their online information. Making this information available will be an asset to all.
Posted by: Papers Research | October 13, 2009 at 02:04 PM
Great series. A bit out of my league, but I’m learning stuff each step of the way. Can’t wait to get to it
Posted by: Term Papers | December 14, 2009 at 11:17 AM