performance analysis is an area of sport and exercise science concerned with actual sports performance rather than self-reports by athletes or laboratory experiments.
Modern techniques of sports performance analysis enable the sport scientist, coach
and athlete to objectively assess, and therefore improve upon, sporting performance.
They are an important tool for any serious practitioner in sport and, as a result,
performance analysis has become a key component of degree programmes in sport
science and sports coaching.
Research Methods for Sports Performance Analysis explains how to undertake a
research project in performance analysis including:
• selection and specification of a research topic
• the research proposal
• gaining ethical approval for a study
• developing a performance analysis system
• testing a system for reliability
• analysing and discussing data
• writing up results.
Covering the full research cycle and clearly introducing the key themes and issues in
contemporary performance analysis, this is the only book that sports students will
need to support a research project in performance analysis, from undergraduate
dissertation to doctoral thesis. Including case studies, examples and data through-
out, this book is essential reading for any student or practitioner with an interest in
performance analysis, sports coaching or applied sport science.
Peter O’Donoghue is Reader and Discipline Director for Performance Analysis in the
Cardiff School of Sport, UWIC. He is also the editor of the International Journal of
Performance Analysis of Sport.
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, RESEARCH METHODS FOR SPORTS
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
Peter O’Donoghue
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