Publications by authors named "Cody R Smith"
Article Synopsis
- Undergraduate and graduate teaching assistants (TAs) often lack teaching experience and professional development but significantly influence undergraduate education.
- This study investigates the relationship between TAs' teaching approaches and their self-efficacy using established measurement scales.
- Results suggest that TAs with higher self-efficacy tend to adopt more student-centered teaching methods, indicating the need for improved professional development opportunities, such as peer mentoring and constructive feedback.
Graduate teaching assistants (TAs) are often responsible for teaching introductory courses to undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics students. The TAs are usually novices at teaching, and an important factor in their resilience and persistence in the face of inevitable challenges is self-efficacy. Little is known about what affects TA teacher efficacy or whether and how high- and low-efficacy TAs differ in their development as teachers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Exercise, especially in the heat, can contribute to acute kidney injury, which can expedite chronic kidney disease onset. The additional stress of ibuprofen use is hypothesized to increase renal stress.
Objectives: To observe the effects of endurance cycling in the heat on renal function.
Background: The procedure of wrapping a heat casualty in ice-water soaked bed sheets to reduce core temperature has received little investigation, despite the practice and recommendation for its use in some military settings. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate the cooling efficacy of ice-sheet cooling (ISC) following exertional hyperthermia.
Methods: 13 (11 males, 2 females) participants (age = 23 ± 3 years, height = 176.
The purpose of our study was to examine the physiological, perceptual, and performance effects of wearing a phase change cooling garment (CG) during an interval exercise routine in the heat. Sixteen male participants (age 23 ± 3 years, ht 1.76 ± 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContext: Exercising in the heat leads to an increase in body temperature that can increase the risk of heat illness or cause detriments in exercise performance.
Objective: To examine a phase change heat emergency kit (HEK) on thermoregulatory and perceptual responses and subsequent exercise performance following exercise in the heat.
Design: Two randomized crossover trials that consisted of 30 minutes of exercise, 15 minutes of treatment (T), performance testing (5-10-5 pro-agility test and 1500-m run), and another 15 minutes of treatment (T) identical to T.
Objective: Evaluate physiological and perceptual responses using a phase change cooling (PCC) garment during simulated work in the heat.
Methods: Twenty males wearing compression undergarments, coverall suit, gloves, and hard-hat, completed two randomly assigned trials (with PCC inserts or control, CON) of simulated industrial tasks in the heat (34.2 ± 0.
Context: Recommended treatment for exertional heat stroke includes whole-body cold-water immersion (CWI). However, remote locations or monetary or spatial restrictions can challenge the feasibility of CWI. Thus, the development of a modified, portable CWI method would allow for optimal treatment of exertional heat stroke in the presence of these challenges.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: We investigated the effects of mild hypohydration compared to euhydration on the cooling efficacy of cold-water immersion (CWI).
Methods: Fourteen participants (eight male, six female; age 26 ± 5 years; ht 1.77 ± 0.