Contents
List of boxes
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. The importance of transferrable skills
2. Managing your time
3. Working with others
4. Taking notes from lectures and text
5. Learning and revising
6. Curriculum options, assessment and exams
7. Preparing your curriculum vitae
8. Finding and citing published information
9. Evaluating information
10. Using online resources
11. Using spreadsheets
12. Word processors, databases and other packages
13. Reporting and interpreting test results
14. General aspects of scientific writing
15. Writing essays and literature reviews
16. Organising a poster display
17. Giving a spoken presentation
18. The principles of measurement
19. Making valid and reliable measurements
20. SI units and their use
21. Scientific method and design of experiments
22. Conducting and writing up project work
23. Your approach to practical work
24. Health and safety
25. Working with body fluids
26. Preparing for fitness tests
27. Pre-exercise health screening procedures
28. Blood and urine collection and analysis
29. Measuring cardiac function
30. Testing pulmonary function
31. Measuring endurance exercise intensity
32. Measuring hydration status and body temperature
33. Measuring flexibility
34. Kinanthropometry
35. Measuring body composition
36. Measuring maximal aerobic capacity
37. Indirect measures of aerobic capacity
38. Measuring energy expenditure and physical activity
39. Measuring anaerobic power and capacity
40. Measuring muscle strength and endurance
41. Common field tests
42. Specific field tests
43. Measuring endurance training thresholds
44. Measuring economy of exercise
45. Monitoring training load
46. Manipulating and transforming raw data
47. Graphs
48. Presenting data in tables
49. Descriptive statistics
50. Choosing and using statistical tests
Index
Contents List of boxes Preface Acknowledgements 1. The importance of transferrable skills 2. Managing your time 3. Working with others 4. Taking notes from lectures and text 5. Learning and revising 6. Curriculum options, assessment and exams 7. Preparing your curriculum vitae 8. Finding and citing published information 9. Evaluating information 10. Using online resources 11. Using spreadsheets 12. Word processors, databases and other packages 13. Reporting and interpreting test results 14. General aspects of scientific writing 15. Writing essays and literature reviews 16. Organising a poster display 17. Giving a spoken presentation 18. The principles of measurement 19. Making valid and reliable measurements 20. SI units and their use 21. Scientific method and design of experiments 22. Conducting and writing up project work 23. Your approach to practical work 24. Health and safety 25. Working with body fluids 26. Preparing for fitness tests 27. Pre-exercise health screening procedures 28. Blood and urine collection and analysis 29. Measuring cardiac function 30. Testing pulmonary function 31. Measuring endurance exercise intensity 32. Measuring hydration status and body temperature 33. Measuring flexibility 34. Kinanthropometry 35. Measuring body composition 36. Measuring maximal aerobic capacity 37. Indirect measures of aerobic capacity 38. Measuring energy expenditure and physical activity 39. Measuring anaerobic power and capacity 40. Measuring muscle strength and endurance 41. Common field tests 42. Specific field tests 43. Measuring endurance training thresholds 44. Measuring economy of exercise 45. Monitoring training load 46. Manipulating and transforming raw data 47. Graphs 48. Presenting data in tables 49. Descriptive statistics 50. Choosing and using statistical tests Index
A 'one-stop' text to guide students through the wide range of practical, analytical and data handling skills that they will need during undergraduate and/or postgraduate studies.
"In general this is an excellent book and my decision to adopt it
is based on the growing need to improve student's transferable
skills and that is where this book excels" - Dr Richard Godfrey,
Department of Sports Science, Brunel University
"This will be a useful reference text for students starting their
final year projects, as it outlines/reviews many of the techniques
used previously by students. I also like the integration of key
skills and soft skills into the text, which allows for constant
reminders to students over the year of the research process. I find
the layout of the book less intimidating and more practically based
than some in the area of research methodology which I think the
students will appreciate" - Dr Bob Hogg, School of Health, Natural
& Social Sciences, University of Sunderland
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Scientist (Psychology Support)
"Very useful overview of skills" - Dr Ian Kenny, Biomechanics
Research Unit, Departments of Physical Education & Sports Science,
University of Limerick
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