Thanks so much for the info! Sounds like this is definitely a program
I will be applying to. I have my doctorate schools narrowed(?) down
to 27 now, and I plan on actually applying to 10...Thanks! :)


--- In B-fit@y..., daryl siedentop <siedentop.1@o...> wrote:
> 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