University training for physical education teachers, sports and preventive and adapted physical activities kinesiologists and sports manager

Abstract

Background: The recent legislative innovations on the kinesiologist's professional profile, as well as the compulsory two hours per week in the primary school of physical education, request for an analysis of the state of the art, highlighting possible critical issues. It is useful to know the relationship between the essential scientific-disciplinary fields in the three master’s degree courses. The individual courses consist of degree disciplines belonging to the scientific-disciplinary fields and are quantified in European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). Purpose: The study aims to verify and measure the criteria that determine the distribution of ECTS in the three scientific-disciplinary fields: biomedical, physical activity-sports and psycho-pedagogical, in relation to the two master's degree courses in sport science and techniques (LM-68) and science of preventive and adapted physical activities (LM-67) and in the three scientific-disciplinary fields: physical activity-sports, economic-legal and psycho-sociological, of the master's degree course in sport management LM-47). Method: The method is document-based and using the Universitaly portal of the Ministry of Universities and Research, data was collected on the ECTS numerosity of the three characterising fields for each of the three-degree courses. Multiple linear regression was applied to predict the value of one dependent variable based on the value of the other two independent variables. Results: Regarding the distribution of ECTS in the three fields in the LM-68 and LM-47 degree courses, the result is not statistically significant (P >.05). No one area can predict the other two, therefore, there is no criterion underlying the degree course designs. The distribution of ECTS in the LM-67 alone is not due to chance, but is characterised by the biomedical field, which is dependent on the physical activity-sports and psycho-pedagogical field (P < .05). Conclusion: The results show that LM-47 and LM-68 are randomly designed while LM-67 is characterised by the biomedical field.