This advanced course enables physical educators to become more informed consumers and designers of educational research, with the planning and implementation of classroom or site-based inquiry. Through integrated research activities, educators learn how to locate, value, select, and appropriately apply educational research. A variety of descriptive data, as well as qualitative and quantitative methods of data gathering, are analyzed. The process is completed during the reporting phase of PE 589B.

The reporting phase enables physical educators to complete their own research process and submit a final research report. Individuals confer with a faculty member to fully review their data analyses and results and to revise and effectively edit their completed research reports. Prerequisite: PE 589A