Research in Exercise Science

What is Research?

— carefully planned course of action designed to….

  • generate knowledge/information

  • expand our understanding of a specific topic, idea, or concept

Types of Research design:

  1. Descriptive

  2. Experimental

  3. Longitudinal

  4. cross-sectional

  5. sequential

Types of Research Papers:

Primary Source——-

  • original research

  • has a purpose

  • shows who, what, where, and when

Secondary Source——-

  • compiles results from original research for a systematic evaluation

  • has a purpose and question

  • data from multiple studies

  • summary of findings