Conducting Research in Sport Management

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A study of research methods and designs appropriate for proposing, conducting, reading, reporting and critiquing research in sport management. A major emphasis will be on conducting meta-analysis of research literature. Each student is required to demonstrate systematic research techniques through the investigation and formal reporting of an independent research project using meta-analysis, descriptive or experimental research design. Statistical methods and their implications for research will be studied, including populations and samples; organizing, displaying, and summarizing data; probability; normal distribution; tests of significance; correlation and simple regression; Z and T tests; and the chi square tests.