The aim of the coursework is to provide an understanding of one type of research process that takes place when knowledge is generated in the context of human performance psychology within health, sport and human performance sciences. Each component of the assessment is designed to mimic the stages of research that precede submission of a paper to a scholarly journal for publication. Different studies that inform a topic in the literature that is relevant to human performance psychology will be identified and in Assessment 1 (30%) you will be asked to read those papers and then develop a hypothesis and rationale for a new study. In this way the whole class will gain an understanding of an area of the literature. The next stage of coursework will involve group work in which you use your new knowledge to design a study that advances understanding of the field (Assessment 2, 35%). The lecturer will guide the design process until a feasible study emerges and each student will then aid data collection by acting as an experimenter when the study is conducted. The lecturer will process and analyse the data and will present it to the class. Assessment 3 will require each student to write up the class study as a research paper (35%) for publication in a scholarly journal. The lecturer will provide ‘editorial’ feedback on whether the paper reaches the standards necessary for publication.