SPMT RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT (ORIGINAL WORK ONLY, PLAGIARISM FREE, A++)

High School Football declining due to Injuries/ Injuries in Sports

Assignment: Research Paper Worksheet

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Assignment Instructions

Please topics that you would like to study. Note how you might address the elements of the research questions and hypotheses for a proposed study about your selected topics. Please select one of the three options for this assignment. You may use the charts provided or submit in paragraph form:

 OPTION 3: If the study is mixed methods.

 

What is your research topic? Sports injuries

 

Mixed methods design
Mixing procedures that you will use (e.g., use qualitative data to explain initial quantitative results or compare and contrast qualitative results with the quantitative results)
Primary benefit of a mixed methods approach?

 

 

Based on your mixed methods design, will you list your quantitative or qualitative questions first? Explain.

 

 

Write a mixed methods research question that conveys the content goal of the study:

 

 

Write a mixed methods research question that conveys the procedures for mixing within the study.

 

 

 

Rubric:

Content (60 pts)	Poor organization Incomplete sections and did not provide sufficient support 0-30 pts	Partial complete Some errors (2 max) in content. Underdeveloped in thought 30-40 pt	Complete of all sections, well organized and developed in thought and content. Provided rationale 40-60 pt
Spelling, grammar, syntax (20 pts)	More than 3 errors  0-10 pt	Minimal errors with considered revisions of word order 10-15 pt	No spelling or grammar errors Or maximum of 1 15-20 pts
APA format (20 points)	More than 2 errors 0-10 pts	1-2 errors 10-14 pts	0-1 errors 15-20 pts

 

What is the difference between your topic (sports injuries in high schools) when written in

1. qualitative research questions

2.  quantitative research questions

3.  mix methods research questions 

Please write 3 research questions of your topic and design.  How would you design each type of study? 

What kind of activities should players focus on post ACL injury?

What are the mental challenges of players post ACL injury?

How to prevent ACL injuries in sports?

With your responses please identify what type of research question your classmates are using as well as feedback on variables, verbs, or language. For responses to multi-part mixed methods research questions, please share which questions are quantitative and which qualitative.

Example of questions: Ethical and unethical sides of the sports industry. There were many aspects within the topic that have to be considered. First, I had to consider the different problems that were considered unethical or illegal acts within the sports industry. Are these acts unethical, illegal, or going against the code of conduct? Second, I had to look at the type of audience and stake holders that might have concerns over this conduct. In other words, who benefits from the unethical and ethical research. People that might benefit from unethical acts during competition could be the owners, coaches, and possibly the players because they may have the most to gain as a result of this. The people who would desire ethics within the game could be alumni, investors, parents, and even players that may feel forced to go against their own code of conduct. All the named above can be set to gain from either direction of the ethical scale but the research will show it individually. In order to appeal to those that question the ethics within sports may find this research important to assure sports is held to a higher standard. 

Practice using research studies to support and inform your responses.  What cutting edge questions could you add based on research that has already been done?  We want to add the next step in the pattern of research on your topic.  Lastly, make your responses unique.  We definitely do not want to be reading the same responses over and over again.  For ethical reasons as well, we would not want to copy anyone's work. Bottom of Form

Ethical Considerations for a Research Study

  High School football is declining due to injuries. This is a research topic that will require collecting data from human subjects and these are the individuals in schools, for example, the coaches and players of high school football (Bogage, 2018). Ethical considerations in this study will help determine the manner which the subjects in the study are handled and also how the information the offer is handled.

  The first ethical consideration in this case, therefore, will be voluntary players. The subjects who give information for this study need to do so out of free will. It would be very unethical to go forcing individuals to give information they are not comfortable giving. The players must volunteer to give up information without coercion. This means that they need to have given consent to players. For the consent to follow ethical guidelines, it has to be informed that the players need to give the consent on the basis of full information of the study, its intentions and procedure and any possible risks or effects.

 The second ethical consideration is confidentiality of information. The information offered by the different players from different high school needs to be confidential not only because it is unethical to go putting to the limelight what specific and identified players pay but also because high school football is a competitive sport and revealing sensitive information can affect the competitiveness of a team. In that, ensuring that information provided by the players in the study is a very important ethical consideration to help make sure that the participant does not suffer any harm or regret the decision of giving u information. It will be important to generalize findings of the study when reporting to make sure that no information given in the report can directly be affiliated to a specific player.

Creswell, J.W. (2018). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches. (5th Ed.) Twelve Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

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