SUISM - Struttura Universitaria di Igiene e Scienze Motorie

PROGRAM:

We will board a theoretical study on the experimental method, its historical origins, the techniques, the limits.

The students will follow two practical applications: just because the semantic meaning of “experimentation” is to conduct one “experience” (knowledge and practice of the things by tests and errors), that profit appears to do “to experiment” in different sectors to consolidate the methodological structure common to the various human motor areas. We will try to conduct the students through a driven training  to an autonomy of planning.

 

MATTERS: Formulation of Hypothesis; natural and systematic Observation; Processes of Evaluation; Methodology of the Tests; Elements of descriptive and comparative statistic; Methods of investigation in the social sciences; elements of group and/or self  relationship dynamics; Techniques of comparative analysis of data.

EXAMINATION:

The student will face the examination of the subject starting from the presentation of his own experience of experimental observation, conducted in the area of the practical exercises of the course, that he will have picked up in a relation introduced at the end of the course.

Such relation will have to present:

 

• the objectives of the project of experimental observation
• the didactic objectives investigated with the observation
• the processes of evaluation and observation chosen
• the descriptive and comparative analysis of the retrieved data
• the interpretative conclusions
• the necessary bibliographical references

 

The examination will continue with questions related to the matters treated during the course and verifications on the ability to elaborate and to interpret data of experimental observation

 

CALENDAR ACTIVITY:

theoretical lessons for the whole first didactic period with the presentation and explanation of the contents of the subject (P1); at the beginning of the P2 the students will follow a first moment in which the they will be guests to practice themselves autonomously on the techniques of observation and data finding using the activity of apprenticeship in scholastic areas; still theoretical lessons for deepening the problem list it emerged during the practice; a second moment, of 10 hours duration  to practice on a experimentation project proposed by the student himself, from whose presentation will depart the examination