Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan information gathering.
- Identify opportunities where research may be used to support and improve own professional practice.
- Evaluate recent issues, trends, and events impacting fitness industry and exercise programming.
- Identify appropriate research methodology to address research topic, type of data collection and analysis to be undertaken and potential uses of data.
- Identify credible primary and secondary sources of information.
- Research and analyse information.
- Access and analyse suitable evidence-based information and data for required information.
- Facilitate analysis by organising information in a way that supports analysis and future use.
- Compare and contrast different sources of information to support analysis.
- Assess strength, relevance, reliability and currency of information in the context of own work.
- Assess feasibility, benefits and risks associated with the information.
- Extract relevant information and integrate into development and modification of exercise strategies.
- Apply research findings to own professional practice.
- Assess ways in which research findings may be used, adapted or challenged in instruction and provision of fitness advice.
- Modify approach to fitness programing activities and advice as required.
- Monitor response to changes made to own professional practice or instruction.
- Continue to adjust own practice to optimise results.
- Maintain records of research findings and application to exercise.
- Plan information gathering.
- Identify opportunities where research may be used to support and improve own professional practice.
- Evaluate recent issues, trends, and events impacting fitness industry and exercise programming.
- Identify appropriate research methodology to address research topic, type of data collection and analysis to be undertaken and potential uses of data.
- Identify credible primary and secondary sources of information.
- Research and analyse information.
- Access and analyse suitable evidence-based information and data for required information.
- Facilitate analysis by organising information in a way that supports analysis and future use.
- Compare and contrast different sources of information to support analysis.
- Assess strength, relevance, reliability and currency of information in the context of own work.
- Assess feasibility, benefits and risks associated with the information.
- Extract relevant information and integrate into development and modification of exercise strategies.
- Apply research findings to own professional practice.
- Assess ways in which research findings may be used, adapted or challenged in instruction and provision of fitness advice.
- Modify approach to fitness programing activities and advice as required.
- Monitor response to changes made to own professional practice or instruction.
- Continue to adjust own practice to optimise results.
- Maintain records of research findings and application to exercise.