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Buszard, Tim; Farrow, Damian; Reid, Machar; Masters, Rich S. W. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2014
Purpose: The International Tennis Federation recently launched a worldwide campaign advocating the use of equipment scaling for children learning to play tennis. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence that varying racquet sizes and ball compressions had on children's ability to play a forehand groundstroke. Method: This was a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racquet Sports, Athletics, Equipment
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Penn-Edwards, Sorrel – Qualitative Report, 2010
The qualitative research methodology of phenomenography has traditionally required a manual sorting and analysis of interview data. In this paper I explore a potential means of streamlining this procedure by considering a computer aided process not previously reported upon. Two methods of lexicological analysis, manual and automatic, were examined…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Computer Software, Computers
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Bodkin-Andrews, Gawaian H.; Ha, My Trinh; Craven, Rhonda G.; Yeung, Alexander Seesing – International Journal of Testing, 2010
This investigation reports on the cross-cultural equivalence testing of the Self-Description Questionnaire II (short version; SDQII-S) for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian secondary student samples. A variety of statistical analysis techniques were employed to assess the psychometric properties of the SDQII-S for both the Indigenous and…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Disadvantaged, Testing, Measures (Individuals)