Conducting And Reading Research In Health and Human Performance

by: Baumgartner, Ted; Strong, Clinton; Hensley, Larry

ISBN 13:
9780072972900
ISBN 10:
0072972904
Edition: 4th
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 07/20/2005
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Summary

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.

Conducting And Reading Research In Health and Human Performance

9780072972900

0072972904

Summary

Table of Contents

Part I The Research Process

1 The Nature and Purpose of Research

2 The Research Problem

3 Searching the Literature

4 Developing the Research Plan

5 Ethical Concerns in Research

6 Selection of Research Participants: Sampling Procedures

7 Reading and Evaluating Research Reports

Part II Types of Research

8 Experimental Research

9 Descriptive Research

10 Qualitative Research

11 Meta-Analysis

12 Additional Research Approaches

Part III Data Analysis

13 Descriptive Data Analysis

14 Inferential Data Analysis

15 Measurement in Research

Part IV The Research Report

16 Developing the Research Proposal

17 Writing the Research Report