1. CSA: Getting Started & Reviewing the Literature
Gary D. Kinchin, PhD

2. Find an idea What emerged from the formative task?
What are you interested in?
What are some questions being asked by colleagues in schools
Motivating learners?
Developing student leadership?
Broadening the curriculum?

3. Getting started…. Locate some of the key PE research journals
European Physical Education Review
Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy
Journal of Teaching in PE
Sport, Education and Society
Quest

4. Look at the recent ‘Table of Contents’
Find and read either a review paper..
Summarises what is known to date
Generates possible gaps
Suggests areas in need of study…or
A recent paper in the area
Which can point you to other sources/references
Also will offer some avenues which might be investigated

5. Literature Review
Will allow you to present what has already been published
Studies can be related by
Methodological framework
Subjects
Procedures
Findings

6. Purpose Define and limit your problem/topic area
Offer a historical perspective on the topic and how the field evolved
Evaluate promising research methods

7. Reading and Recording Literature
Read, attempt to understand and record relevant information
Where you find a paper write down the exact citation
APA, Harvard System

8. Things to Note: Recall the Formative Task
Problem, hypothesis
Subjects
Data collection procedures
Research design
Major findings
Questions raised for further study
Additional and relevant sources (from reference list)

9. Make photocopies of the ones you want to keep
Keep note cards
Cite accurately (just in case you have to retrieve this again!)

10. Structure of the Literature Review
Introduction
Set out the purpose of the review and how it will be organized
Body of the Review
Includes reference to the relevant sources and research
Summary/Conclusions
Important implications of the research and directions for future research
Where the gaps lie
Link to your purpose statement and what you intend to do

11. The review…
Seeks to compare and contrast different authors' views on an issue
Collates authors who draw similar findings/conclusions
Offers a critique on aspects of methodology
Identifies areas in which researchers disagree
Highlights seminal studies
Reveals gaps in the research
Shows how your intended study relates to previous research
Shows how your study relates to the literature in general
Summarises what the literature says

12. Problem Statement
Specifies what you are asking to keep the literature within limits
E.g. What are year 9 pupils’ views on being taught using a tactical approach?
Generates descriptors/key words
Games of understanding
Tactical approach
Instructional models
Pupils’ voices
Assists locating other sources relevant to the topics

13. Setting out the context of the school
Describe and analyse your school context and how it has interpreted a particular initiative [e.g. using different instructional models]
What does the Inspection report say about the issue [suggestion the department expands approaches to teaching]