The course will deepen all the main dimensions of experimental pedagogy, including applications and empirical research, with an experimental approach, related to the assessment of skills and school performance and training processes, as well as those related to the design and evaluation of technologies and educational techniques and interventions in school systems. The methodological competences necessary for didactic and docimological research will also be studied in depth.
• Logic of empirical research in education: definition and history
• The objectives of educational research
• Research strategies: quantitative and qualitative methods
• The research methods: problem analysis, definition of objectives, definition of research design, sample and sampling, data collection and analysis, results interpretation
• Practical applications of educational research
• Experimental Pedagogy in Motor and Sport Sciences
• Docimological Cards for Motor Education