Research Guides: Kinesiology, Recreation, & Sport Studies: Research Methods & Tools

Learn about Research Methodology

SAGE Research Methods
A collection of articles, books, case studies, practice datasets, and instructional videos to help you learn how to conduct qualitative and quantitative research.
If the content of a SAGE Research Methods article is inaccessible to you, please contact eproblems@utk.edu to request an accessible alternative format.
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Literature Reviews
Guidance on conducting a narrative literature review for a thesis or dissertation
Systematic Reviews
Information on how to conduct systematic reviews
Campbell Collaboration Training
The Campbell Collaboration is a social science research network that produces evidence syntheses. They provide a asynchronous, online course as well as videos helpful for beginners and experienced researchers.

Software & Tools

Citation Management
Learn more about using EndNote and Zotero to manage your citations and create bibliographies.

Covidence
Covidence is a systematic review screening platform designed to streamline production of literature review. First-time users must go to Signup to request an invitation to use Covidence.
- Fill out the form with your first name and UT email address and click “Request an Invitation”.
- You will then be sent an email which will have a link containing a one-time use “Accept Invitation” button that will send you to a log-in page where you will create your account.
- After you create an account, you will use the A-Z Database List link to go to the login page. The link is here: https://libguides.utk.edu/databases/67371382.
- *Be sure to check your spam folder if the email does not arrive in a few minutes. You should be taken to a form that will create your account.

OIT Research Computing Support
Get help planning your research, acquiring data, analyzing data, and reporting results.
OIT Research Software
Access software packages to help you with surveys, data mining, qualitative analysis, and more.

Instruments & Scales

Survey questions, inventories, scales, and other instruments can be difficult to locate and are often available only from commercial publishers. If you are not able to locate the measure through these resources, please contact me for help.

Tests & Measures
Suggested sources for finding information about tests and measurements.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments
Measurement and evaluation instruments found in the health and psychosocial literature since 1985.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
Information and reviews of standardized tests.