Expertise and Decision Making in Sport

Code:

PDCD042

Acronym:

CDDTFP

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Sports Sciences

Instance: 2024/2025 - SP

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Sport Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
PDCD	10	Plano em vigor a partir de 2009	1	-	5	45	135

Last updated on 2025-05-13.

Fields changed: Mandatory literature

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students
Obs.: Português

Objectives

To provide students with essential knowledge and core skills for the drawing up of scientific knowledge, particularly in what concerns to the expertise, decision making, observation and analysis of sports training and competition.

At the end of the course, it is intended that students are able:

to understand main research questions about the relationship bamong perception, decision making and tactical actions in sport;

to systematize the perceptual-cognitive skills underlying decision-making in sport;

to know techniques and measures of perceptual-congitive assessment, in training and competition contexts.

Learning outcomes and competences

The program is committed to the discussion of scientific issues and debate of research problems, in order to develop skills that lead students to progress towards the specific challenges related to questions about the expertise, decision making and observation, both in sports training and competition settings.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Expertise, cognition and action.
Decision making:

computational approach and approach based on constraints

research approaches and methodologies

Advanced observation and interpretation of performance in sport contexts:

concepts, methods and specific tools

performance variables and indicators

From training excellence to high performance.

Mandatory literature

Araújo, D.; O Contexto de Decisão – a acção táctica no desporto, Visão e Contextos, 2005
Carling Christopher; Performance assessment for field sports. ISBN: 978-0-415-42685-5
Garganta, J.; Modelação táctica do jogo de futebol, FADEUP, 1997
Hughes Mike 340; Notational Analysis of Sport. ISBN: 972-8687-01-X
Starkes Janet L. 340; Expert performance in sports. ISBN: 0-7360-4152
Tavares, F.; A Capacidade de Decisão Táctica no Jogador de Basquetebol, FCDEF-UP, 1993
Vickers, J.; Perception, Cognition and Decision Training. The quiet eye in action, Human Kinectics, 2007
Araújo, D., Davids, K., & Hristovski, R. ; The ecological dynamics of decision making in sport, Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 7(6), 653-676, 2006
Davids, K., Button, C., & Bennett, S. ; Dynamics of skill acquisition: a constraints-led approach. , Champaign (IL): Human Kinetics., 2008
Jordet, G., Aksum, KM., Pedersen, DN., Walvekar, A., Trivedi, A., McCall, A., Ivarsson, A., & Priestley, D.; Scanning, Contextual Factors, and Association With Performance in English Premier League Footballers: An Investigation Across a Season., Frontiers in Psychology, 11:553813., 2020
Kelso, J. ; Multistability and metastability: Understanding dynamic coordination in the brain. , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 367, 906-918, 2012
Marsh, K., Richardson, M., & Schmidt, R.; Social connection through joint action and interpersonal coordination. , Topics in Cognitive Science, 1, 320- 339., 2009
Ribeiro, J., Davids, K., Araújo, D., Guilherme, J., Silva, P., & Garganta, J.; Exploiting Bi-Directional Self-Organizing Tendencies in Team Sports: The Role of the Game Model and Tactical Principles of Play. , Frontiers in Psychology 10:2213. , 2013
Rietveld, E., & Kiverstein, J. ; A rich landscape of affordances., Ecological Psychology, 26, 325–352., 2014
Seifert, L., Komar, J., Araújo, D., & Davids, K. ; Neurobiological degeneracy: A key property for functional adaptations of perception and action to constraints., Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 69, 159- 165., 2016
Silva, P., Vilar, L., Davids, K., Araújo, D., & Garganta, J. ; Sports teams as complex adaptive systems: Manipulating player numbers shapes behaviors during football small-sided games., SpringerPlus, 5(1), 191., 2016
Silva, P., Garganta, J., Araújo, D., Davids, K., & Aguiar, P. ; Shared knowledge or shared affordances? Insights from an ecological dynamics approach to team coordination in sports., Sports Medicine, 43, 765–72., 2013

Teaching methods and learning activities

In parallel with the use of the lecture method, complemented with the employ of audiovisual media, some lessons focus on critical analysis and discussion of ideas. Besides several presentations that occur throughout the school year, the students must present and support a report contrasting the main methods and tools used in scientific research concerning expertise, decision making, training and match analysis in team sports

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	80,00
Participação presencial	20,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	70,00
Frequência das aulas	15,00
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Total:	135,00

Eligibility for exams

Not applicable.

Calculation formula of final grade

Final Classification =0,20 X PP + 0,80 x TE

PP - In-person Participation
TE - Written Work

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