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Informationen zum Autor Michael Atkinson is Associate Professor, Faculty of Physical Education and Health, University of Toronto. He was previously Senior Lecturer in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Loughborough University, leading the instruction of research methods and skills at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels therein. Michael received a PhD in Sociology from the University of Calgary in 2001 (BA, University of Waterloo, 1995; MA, McMaster University, 1997). Since then, he has researched and taught courses on the sociology of sport, bodies, deviance and research methods (qualitative, quantitative and historical) at Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada), McMaster University (Canada), and University of Western Ontario (Canada). For his contributions to the Canadian social sciences, Michael was recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada's prestigious Aurora Award in 2004. Klappentext Written by the leading name in the field, this is an engaging introduction to the main concepts in both quantitative and qualitative research methods in sport, exercise, kinesiology and health. Conversational in tone yet thoroughly comprehensive. Zusammenfassung Written by the leading name in the field! this is an engaging introduction to the main concepts in both quantitative and qualitative research methods in sport! exercise! kinesiology and health. Conversational in tone yet thoroughly comprehensive. Inhaltsverzeichnis Academic Journals Analytic Epidemiology Applied versus Pure Research Archival Research Causality Critical Theory Descriptive Statistics Discourse Analysis Distributions Epistemology Ethnography Evaluation Research Evidence-Based Research and Practice Experiments Grounded Theory Hypotheses Inferential Statistics Interdisciplinary Research Interpretivism Interviewing Literature Reviews Media Analysis Meta-Analysis Ontology Populations and Samples Positivism Quantitative versus Qualitative Research Questionnaires Reliability Representation Research Ethics Research Proposals Research Questions Theory Translation Triangulation Unobtrusive Methods Validity Variables Visual Methods ...
