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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    Examining the Impact of Intramural Youth Sports on SEL (social and emotional learning)
    (Center for Translating Research Into Practice, IU Indianapolis, 2021-05-28) Urtel, Mark
    Professor Urtel studies programs and interventions at schools that not only focus on the health outcomes from physical activity, but the academic readiness and positive behavioral outcomes that are associated with consistent physical activity.
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    Introduction to Mark Urtel & His Work
    (Center for Translating Research Into Practice, IU Indianapolis, 2021-05) Urtel, Mark
    Professor Mark Urtel briefly discusses his translational research with youth physical fitness.
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    Physical Education in the COVID Era: Considerations for Online Program Delivery Using the Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program Framework
    (Human Kinetics, 2021-04) Webster, Collin A.; D’Agostino, Emily; Urtel, Mark; McMullen, Jaimie; Culp, Brian; Loiacono, Cate A. Egan; Killian, Chad; Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Sciences
    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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    Flipping the Annual Faculty Review: Designing a Faculty-Centered Process
    (Wiley, 2020) Urtel, Mark; Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Sciences
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    A Constant Balancing Act: Delivering Sustainable University Instructional Physical Activity Programs
    (Human Kinetics, 2020-11) Brock, Sheri J.; Beaudoin, Christina; Urtel, Mark G.; Hicks, Lisa L.; Russell, Jared A.; Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Sciences
    The goal of university instructional physical activity programs (IPAPs) is to provide quality instruction through best practices to encourage college students to lead healthy and physically active lifestyles. As IPAPs have continued to decline due to enrollment and budgetary concerns, the importance of quality and sustainability has become particularly paramount. Furthermore, it is imperative to the existence of IPAPs that we strive to learn and share with each other in order to independently survive, but more essentially to flourish collectively, as we are better together. In our varied experience, while some IPAPs face unique challenges, many obstacles are common, regardless of institution size and composition. This paper will offer the perspectives of four strikingly different colleges and universities in their quest to navigate challenges in delivery, maintain and support quality instruction, and advocate for IPAPs.
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    Virtual Physical Education During COVID-19: Exploring Future Directions for Equitable Online Learning Tools
    (Frontiers, 2021-08) D'Agostino, Emily M.; Urtel, Mark; Webster, Collin A.; McMullen, Jaimie; Culp, Brian; Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Sciences
    Introduction: School closures prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic reduced opportunities for US youth to be physically active and disproportionately impacted health disparities in this population. Physical education provides the largest intervention to support the physical activity of school-aged youth, but teachers' opinions about how to maintain quality programming during virtual learning periods remain unexplored. Applying a diversity, equity and inclusion framework, this study explored physical education teachers' perceived significance of different design features for an online teaching tool to promote physical activity equity during school closures. Methods: Previous literature and focus groups informed the development of a survey administered in summer/fall 2020. Survey participants (n= 60) were physical education teachers from 400 randomly selected US preschool-12th grade schools drawing from a national database. Participants rated the significance of four design features in relation to five key attributes of an online supplement to in-person physical education programs. One-way ANOVAs were used to assess differences in teachers' ratings by demographic characteristics. Results: Between-group differences were found in teacher ratings of design features related to the usability, accessibility, equitability, and formal assessment capabilities of an online physical education tool. Differences were based on teacher gender, school level, and geographic location. Conclusions: Future research to promote physical activity equity among preschool-12th grade youth should examine tailored virtual physical education learning tools that address what teachers perceive to be the most significant design features to support equitable physical education among diverse student groups.
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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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    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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    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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    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.