After this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand various paradigms for conducting research
• Identify a research problem that will be subsequently developed into a research proposal
• Conduct a literature review by critically evaluating published research articles
• Write research questions and hypotheses
• Evaluate the various research designs for sports studies
• Evaluate data collection & analysis methods
• Design a research proposal  
• Understand the ethical and publication issues in sports sciences
• Effectively use library reference sources and services