Research Methods
Is a tentative assumption or statement established to test its empirical consequences through experiments or interventions.
Hypothesis
The study of the causes and consequences of bodily functioning and changes occurring due to physical activity.
Exercise Physiology
What type of technology is continuously behind developed that an athlete can wear?
Clothing, prosthetics
Research uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches in the research process and collects, analyzes, and reports quantitative and qualitative data to better understand and answer research questions.
Mixed methods
Refers to a specific area of study yielding answers to important questions, researchers discover and share information amongst themselves.
A body of knowledge
Is the degree to which a study accurately assesses what the researcher is measuring.
Validity
The study of the theoretical and applied aspects of leading, planning, organizing, staffing, funding, and conducting sporting events.
Sport Management
What type of music did the Greek listen to that became vital to their sport?
Lyre
Deals with the manipulation of independent variables to generate data and draw statistical conclusions.
Experimental research
Guidelines, characterize the process of discovering new knowledge, stringent adherence to protocols to give credibility to the results.
A conceptual framework
Collect, analyze, and display data without making any changes or using any interventions.
Observational studies
The study of human behavior in sport, including an understanding of the mental processes that interact with motor skill performance.
Sport and Exercise Psychology
What are some examples of how technology is used in sports?
Starting blocks, review plays, film studies, and equipment
Often used in the social sciences such as psychology and sociology, is a flexible approach that seeks information about human behavior and what governs this behavior. Data or information gathered cannot be analyzed mathematically but can be used to draw conclusions about the individuals studied.
Qualitative research
An organized and systematic scientific approach used by scholars for controlled investigations and experiments to efficiently solve theoretical and practical problems, generating discoveries and/or science advances.
Scholarly procedures and methods of inquiry
Is a statistical procedure for selecting units from a population of interest to measure in a research project, so the results can be generalized or applied to this population.
Sampling
The study of the social relationships of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and culture in the context of sport and the social behavior of individuals, groups, organizations, institutions, and societies in a sporting context.
Sport Sociology
What sport did the Greeks use their music?
Gymnastics
Depicts characteristics of people that already exist rather than measuring the effect of a variable, such as through case studies, interviews, and ethnographic observations.
Descriptive research
Collection of data, accuracy in reporting and interpretation of data, if the study is able to be replicated to consistently verify the results.
Both the process of discovery and the end result
Is the process of examining and transforming data to summarize a situation, highlight useful information, discover relationships, and suggest conclusions.
Data analysis
The study of the effects of anatomical and physiological effects of natural laws and internal and external forces acting on the human body during movement (application of physics).
Sport Biomechanics
Name a type of technology that you use in your sport today.
I used a swinging program that would analyze my swing and tell me what was wrong, this was in softball.
Uses pre-existing or naturally formed groups so there is an absence of random assignment. Because the possibility of confounding variables, conclusions about causal relationships may not be possible.
Quasi-experimental research
Discovery of knowledge through a scholarly process of inquiry. A formal body of knowledge discovered, developed, and disseminated through scholarly research and inquiry.
Academic Discipline