Summary
Contents
This book systematically demonstrates the significance and application of method in plain language.
Written for students, this book contains the core methodological concepts, practices, and debates they need to understand and apply research methods within the field of sport and exercise. It provides a comprehensive panoramic introduction which will reassure and empower its readers.
Written by a leading academic, and drawing on years of teaching experience, it includes carefully cross-referenced entries which critically engage with interdisciplinary themes and data.
Each concept includes:
Clear Definitions; Suggestions for Further Reading; Comprehensive Examples; Practical Applications
Pragmatic, lucid, and concise, the book will provide essential support to students in sport and exercise science, kinesiology, and health.
Evaluation Research
Evaluation Research
Research methodologists devote a great deal of time, money, energy and creative inspiration into developing techniques for the study of life. In both pure and applied ways, we try to hone particular skills for answering questions. Methodologists are like multi-skilled mechanics of the research process; engineering, building, testing and fixing research vehicles of one sort or another. From time to time researchers are called upon to deploy their methodological and analytic skills to help solve the problems of others. By this, I mean we are consulted with or hired to assess, evaluate or fix an institutional policy, programme or method of operation either in practice or one that is being proposed. For example, at the university where I teach (the University of Toronto), ...