Master's Degree in Research and Intervention in Physical Activity and Sports Sciences
- Comprender el sentido y utilidad de los paradigmas en el campo multidisciplinar de las ciencias de la actividad física y el deporte.
- Conocer las características y fundamentos que conforman los diferentes paradigmas presentes en la investigación sobre ciencias de la actividad física y el deporte
- To understand the connections between the different epistemological levels of an inquiry.
- To analyze various types of research and relate them to the paradigms.
- To know the types of evaluation in science and the role scientific journals play in the communication of research.
- To analyze examples of scientific documents according to certain quality criteria.
- To use major documentary techniques for literature search.
- To understand the role of databases in the information access, the visibility of science and its contribution to the study of science.
- To understand the complex research environment, limitations and challenges.
- To know the measuring instruments in the field of quantitative research.
- To design experimental research according to ethical principles of quantitative research.
- To choose and apply appropriate statistical techniques according to a particular study.
- To prepare a scientific report from a quantitative research.
- To communicate experimental research results according to the scientific culture of quantitative research.
- To detect and identify problems related to physical activity and sport that can be studied from quantitative methodology.
- To detect and identify social problems related to physical activity and sport that can be studied from a qualitative methodology.
- To understand and discuss methodologies and techniques of qualitative research in social sciences and use some of them.
- To know and consult the main qualitative research publications in the field of sport and physical activity.
- To know different forms of qualitative data analysis.
- Conocer programas de análisis de datos cualitativos asistidos por ordenador y utilizar alguno de ellos.
- Conocer y analizar ejemplos de investigación cualitativa en diversos contextos sociales del ámbito de la actividad física y el deporte, de acuerdo a principios éticos de investigación cualitativa.
- Conocer distintas formas de representación de las investigaciones cualitativas y elaborar pequeños borradores de algunas de ellas.
- Conocer los principales modelos teóricos acerca de entrenamiento que integran los distintos ámbitos implicados en el rendimiento y la salud.
- To identify determinants in sports talent identification.
- To identify and analyze the main and current research lines on exercise as a tool for improving health and performance.
- To apply research and design work plans in real environments for performance and health.
- To know the functioning and usage of technological means to quantify variables related to performance and health.
- Conocer y aplicar diseños de investigación en un entorno de rendimiento y de mejora de la salud.
- To understand and analyze management techniques, strategic planning and management of the institutions and services of physical activity and sport.
- To understand and analyze research in sports management developed in different applied contexts.
- To know and analyze research on consumers attitudes and users of physical activity and sport services.
- Comprender y analizar la investigación educativa que se realiza con distintos grupos sociales y en distintos contextos de la actividad física y el deporte.
- To know the different research models and designs on teaching physical activity and sport.
- To understand and analyze research in teacher education and other professionals of sport and physical activity.
- To develop a research paper, which use the tools and knowledge acquired during the development of the other modules.
- To ask a relevant research questions to be temporary and economically viable.
- To choose the relevant information to raise the research objectives and the most plausible hypothesis.
- To use appropriate means and methods to answer the research questions.
- To adequately manage available material and human resources.
- To learn to work with other colleagues in a research team and manage the study participants.
- To analyze and interpret the results of a research.
- To contrast the own results with other already published in the scientific literature.
- To write a scientific text according to the various existing forms of representation in research, and to present and defend it.
