Motor control and applied statistics (KTV/E-MCS)

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Synopsis / description / annotation:

Objectives of the course are to introduce students to the theory of development and diagnosis of motor skills and fitness in a different target groups of people.

Requirements on student:

Active participation and task presentation in seminars, final test

Content:

Lectures

  1. Anthropometrics (science, objectives, interdisciplinary relations)
  2. Motor Diagnostic1 (Diagnostic Process Phase)
  3. Motor Diagnostics 2 (scaling and standardising results)
  4. Power
  5. Endurance
  6. Coordination
  7. Flexibility
  8. Speed and agility (agility)
  9. Motor skills
  10. Power and sports performance
  11. Human Motor Ontogenesis
  12. Laterality
  13. Basic methods to monitor motor development

Seminar

  1. Elements of seminar tasks (form and content).
  2. Power testing and statistical data processing
  3. Endurance testing and statistical data processing
  4. Speed testing and statistical data processing
  5. Coordination capability testing and statistical data processing
  6. Flexibility testing and statistical data processing
  7. Motor skills testing and statistical data processing
  8. Scaling exercise skills and statistical data processing
  9. Motor docility testing and statistical data processing
  10. Laterality testing and statistical data processing
  11. Motor performance standardisation and scoring
  12. Agility Diagnostics and Statistical Data Processing
  13. Final test

Literature:

  • O´Donoghue. Statistics for Sport Studies and Exercise Studies: An introduction. Routledge, New York: Taylor and Francis Group, 2012.
  • Reiman PM & Manske RC. Functional Testing in Human Performance. Human Kinetics, 2009. ISBN 0-7360-6879-1.
  • Schmidt, R. A., & Lee, T. D. Motor Control and Learning-A Behavioral Emphasis (5th ed.). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics., 2011.

Updated: 03. 10. 2022