CLCR1
LanguageENG
PublishYear2011
publishCompany
Wiley
EISBN
9781118067109
PISBN
9780470404805
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Designing and Conducting Research in Health and Human Performance is an easy-to-read, user-friendly text is ideal for students in health, physical education, exercise science, athletic training, and recreation. It explores the full range of basic topics typically covered in research courses in health, human performance, exercise science, kinesiology, and physical education. The book provides the information and skills needed to be effective producers and consumers of research. Designed for the first course in research methods, this text shows students how to conduct and read research, design research tools, and evaluate results in health, kinesiology, exercise science, recreation, dance, and all other areas of human performance--providing comprehensive coverage of both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Readers of this book will be able to write effective research proposals and theses; read, assess, interpret, and apply published research; and understand how to conduct basic studies in health, physical education, exercise science, athletic training, and recreation. Part I: Understanding Important Concepts Chapter 1: Introduction to Research in Health and Human Performance; What you will find out!; Defining Research; Being a Consumer of Research; Scientific method; Basic vs. Applied Research; Internal Validity; External Validity; Independent and Dependent Variables; Overview of Types of Research; Check it out review your understanding Chapter 2: Ethical Issues in Health and Human Performance; What you will find out!; Historical Context of Human Subjects Research; Institutional Review Board; Informed Consent Elements; Plagiarism; Data collection; Copyright; Data Storage; Data Fabrication/Falsification; Check it out review your understanding Part II: Reviewing the Literature Chapter 3: Developing your topic; What you will find out!; Identifying the problem; Primary vs. Secondary Research ; Library; Organizing your research; Reading and Interpreting Research Reports; Check it out review your understanding Chapter 4: Writing the Review of Literature; What you will find out!; Developing an Outline; Identifying Sections; Funneling your ideas; Check it out review your understanding Part III: Understanding and Developing Research Designs Chapter 5: Quantitative Research Designs; What you will find out!; Descriptive Research; Survey; Case study; Observational; Experimental Research; True experimental vs. Quasi experimental; Correlation Research; Check it out review your understanding Chapter 6: Qualitative Research Designs; What you will find out!; Characteristics of Qualitative Research; Theoretical Frameworks; Procedures in Qualitative Research; Interviews; Focus Groups; Incidence Reports; Stimulated Recall; Types of Qualitative Research; Grounded Theory; Ethnographic Research; Phenomenological Research; Life Histories; Check it out review your understanding Chapter 7: Mixed Method and Action Research Designs; What you will find out!; Sequential Designs; Concurrent Designs; Action Research; Check it out review your understanding Chapter 8: Developing your Research Design and Method; What you will find out!; Statement of the problem Why?; Delimitations; Limitations; Defining Terms; Developing your Methods; Who, How, When; Check it out review your understanding Part IV: Exploring Measurement and Analysis Chapter 9: Validity, Reliability and Objectivity; What you will find out!; Validity Concepts; Reliability Concepts; Objectivity Concepts; Check it out review your understanding Chapter 10: Quantitative Analysis: Hypothesis Testing; What you will find out!; Sampling Procedures; Steps in Hypothesis testing ; Example of Hypothesis testing using correlation; Check it out review your understanding Chapter 11: Statistical Procedures: Using Excel and SPSS; What you will find out!; Levels of Data; Descriptives Statistics; Inferential Statistics; N
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