2025

Sports Performance Assessement and Control

Name: Sports Performance Assessement and Control
Code: DES15027L
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area: Human Kinetics

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English, Spanish
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

1. Know and systematize the fundamentals of evaluation and control of sports performance;
2. Apply the methodologies and instruments of evaluation of Sports Performance;
3. Analyze and interpret the results resulting from the evaluation;
4. Prepare reports or other forms of presentation of the information collected;
5. Use the information compiled to support training or competition preparation processes.

Contents

Block I – Fundamentals of Sports Performance Assessment and Control
1. The Systematic Evaluation Model
2. Fundamentals of Testing Programs
3. The Control Sessions
Block II – Observation Methodologies in the evaluation and control of training
1. Means and Methods of Observation
a. Registration by: error; check list; Category systems; Interface Ranges
b. Chronometric Analysis Software
c. Filming/Video Procedures
d. Data Analysis Software
Block III – Assessment and control of motor skills
1. Strength Assessment
2. Speed Assessment
3. Agility Assessment
4. Resistance Assessment
Block IV – Evaluation and control of performance in Team Sports
1. Game Analysis as a Method of Evaluation in Team Sports
2. Physiological Assessment in Team Sports
3. Time and Motion Analysis
4. Tactical Analysis
5. Technical Analysis
6. Multidimensional Analysis
Block V – Communication and presentation of Results
1. Data typology
2. Typology of analysis
3. Graphs and Figures

Teaching Methods

This course will use a student-centered teaching methodology, seeking to develop the skills provided through experimentation and application. In the first phase of the course, the contents will be applied among the students, who will experience as evaluators and athletes the different methodologies of blocks 3 and 4. Based on the information collected, balance and reflection sessions will be created for the development of blocks 1 and 2, as well as the preparation of projects to present the different results by different groups of students – block 5. After this first phase, data collection projects will be prepared in the community, above all in the local sports clubs where the students are connected in the internship curricular units, for the definition, application and analysis of a methodology for the evaluation of performance by the students, in groups, which will be used as the main evaluation task.

Assessment

The evaluation will focus on the practical application of the contents covered. It will be divided into two areas: the session tasks, which will have a continuous character and will be proposed by the teachers during the classes; and the final evaluation task, which will be applied in the community, in articulation with other curricular units that the students are attending, such as internships in sports clubs. In this task, the form of data presentation will be increased, according to block 5. The weightings will be as follows:

Final Grade = Session Assignments x 40% + Final Assessment Assignment x 60%

Teaching Staff

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