Class Scientific Dissertation in High Performance Sport

The dissertation seeks to provide students with the ability to use research and planning procedures and techniques of investigation and planning, with scientific rigor and seriousness and, at the same time, stimulate the need and discuss scientific methods. According to these assumptions, performed a systematic and complete work on a particular subject, detailed treatment, and extensive in range. The realization of the research paper requires the achievement of bibliographical research that will define the rational theoretical work, the definition of a method, data collection, the analysis of the results, a discussion supported by theoretical rationale, and a conclusion.

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The dissertation is organized in 3 stages, during which the student is supervised by a teacher, producing the following outcomes:   Stage 1 - Definition of the topic, basic literature review, objective, and preliminary methods. Report (10.000 characters). Poster presentation on an evaluation conference. Stage 2 - Critical review of the literature, method, and report of the progress in data collection. Manuscript with a systematic literature review or meta-analysis and the study method (research protocol). Oral presentation on an evaluation conference. Stage 3 - Results, discussion, and final text. The dissertation includes: General introduction (10.000 characters); Manuscript 1 - Systematic review of the literature; Manuscript 2 - Experimental or observational research paper; General discussion (10.000 characters). Oral presentation for the final evaluation.

The students have 15 hours of classes at the beginning of the 2nd year, to work and develop the specific methods and research techniques. Weekly meetings are scheduled with the supervisors and can occur individually or in seminars. The 3 phases allow, with progressive complexity and depth, the development and intermediate formative evaluation of the work. The evaluation conferences allow for this intermediate formative evaluation and work as milestones. The final evaluation is done with a jury of at least 3 elements and includes a 20-minute oral presentation, followed by a period of 60-minute of questioning from the jury, with this time equally divided by the student answers and jury questions. The classifications are calculated through the following: 35% by the process of developing the dissertation and 65% by the quality of the dissertation document, with the following criteria: >18 ready for a journal with an IF>1; 17-18 journal IF<1; 15-16 journal indexed;<15 journal non-indexed.

A bibliografia específica é definida pelos Orientadores de acordo com os temas e linhas de investigação.