Kin 122 An Intro To Research

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Movement is biological because

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Concerned with atatomical, mechanical, physiological and neural bases of movement

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Movement is social because

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Concerned with the conyexual influences that impact all forms of human movement

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Personal Application

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Human movememtn affects everyone

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Public Application

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-Skills to combat lifestyle related diseases

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Professional Application

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-Teaching and coaching

-Health and Fitness

-Sport Management

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Imagination

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-Kick starts ideas

-Application of knowledge

-Creativity

-Thinking outside the box

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Knowledge

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-Base level to expand

-Apply properly

-imagination becomes reality

-Application to real life situations

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Some common characteristics of Research

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-Systematic

-Logical

-Empirical

-Reductive

-Replicable

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Systematic

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-Problems, Methods, Data anaylsis, interpretations, conclusions

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Logical

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Others can evaluate conclussions drawn

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Empirical

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Conclussions based on data

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Reductive

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data used to establish more general relationship

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Replicable

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the research process is recorded and otehrs can repeat or build on that research

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Philosophical Worldview

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A researches basic set of beliefs about the general orientation of the world and the nature of research

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The 4 Worldviews are:

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-Postpositivism

-Constructivism

-Transformative

-Pragmatism

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Postpositism

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-Based on the notion of a SINGLE TRUTH

-Research should be unbiased and objective

-Associated wit the scientific method and QUANTITATIVE research

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Constructivism

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-Based on the notion of MULTIPLE REALITIES

-There is a focus on complexity of views

-QUALITATIVE research

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Transformative

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-Based on the notion that research need to be intertwined with politics and political agenda

-There is a focus on action and reform

-Researches work collaborativily with participants

-QUALITATIVE dominant

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Pragmatism

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-Research needs to be concerned with "WHAT WORKS" and solutions to problems

-No commitment to a single reality

-Reseachers use whatever methods work best

-MIXED METHODS

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It is important to understadn research because:

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-Career goal in research

-Encourage critical thinking

-Appreciate researchers

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Thomas et. al's steps in the scientific method:

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1)Developing the problem

2)Formulating a Hypothesis

3) Gathering Data

4) Analyzing and interpreting results

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Internal Validity

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Extend to which the results can be attributed to the treatments used in the study

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External Validity

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The generalizability of the results

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Quantitative research

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-For theory testing, describing status on variables, and looking at relations amoung variables

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Three forms of research questions in quantitative research:

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1) Comparing groups

-Comparison of male and female self esteem

2) Relating independent and dependent variables

-Relationship between obesity and sport participation

3) Describe responses/ Status on a variable

-Peak bone growth velocity

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Statistics

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An objective means of interpreting data

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Stats inform about 2 things

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1) Reliability

2) Meaningfulness

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Central tendency

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A single score that best represents all scores for a group of individuals

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Mean

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Most common measure of central tendency

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Median

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# occuring at the midpoint ( IN ORDER) of the series

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Mode

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Most frequently occuring number

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Variability

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Best estimate of the spread of scores

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Qualitative Research

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-For exploring and understanding meanings ascribed by individuals or groups

-Done in participants setting

-Researcher is apart of the process

-Flexibility on how research is represented

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How to collect qualitative data

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1) Documents

2) Audiovisual

3) Observations

4) Interviews

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One on One interveiw guide

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1) Should start with a grand tour question

2) Interview questions should be:

-open ended (describe, tell me about)

-Clear and singular

3) Recording interviews

-audio recordings then transcribed

-take field notes

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Mixed methods research

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Combines quantitative and qualitative research forms

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Mixed Methods research is likely driven by which philosophical worldview?

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Pragmatism

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The Strenghs of Poetic Transcription

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1) Inherent- Researches beyond academia

2) Content- individual voices, multiple interpretations

3) Structural - Sensory activation, Visual barrier reduction