The School of Physical Activity and Educational Services in the College of
Education at OSU, houses the Sport and Exercise Sciences group. There are
three clear tracks in that group...sport and exercise science, sport
management, and sport pedagogy.

In sport and exercise science they have moved away from lab approaches to
more applied work. Dr. Janet Buckworth is the exercie behavior specialist,
but there is also another faculty member who started in health education
but whose work eventually landed him with the exercice behavior group.
Janet is not an ABAer, but knows the ABA approach and certainly values it.

In the sport pedagogy group, Dr. Phil Ward (an australian who trained with
me) is the leading ABAer in sport pedagogy in the world...he just published
an interesting review paper on all the ABA research in physical
education...paper is in the Journal of Teaching in Physical Education.

For doc students, the other possibility is that the special ed group in the
College of Education is totally ABA (John Cooper, Bill Heward, Tim Heron,
Gwen Cartledge, Stephanie Peterson, Nancy Neef). It is quite possible for
doc students in other parts of the college (e.g., sport and exercise
science) to do a cognate in spec ed (which, in fact, at the doc level, is
an ABA program, not a special ed program) and have a member of that group
on their committee.

I retired from faculty life last year after a few years of being Dean of
the College...I now administer a university wide program aimed at improving
academic performance in urban schools in Ohio.

daryl siedentop