VERN2110 Data Collection, analysis and Learning conditions Course description

In this course, students are given an introduction to topics that are important in order to ensure that people with various functional impairments can live good and independent lives. Applied behaviour analysis as a professional point of departure for mapping and analysis forms an important part of the course, as do assessments of care, training and change measures.

A six-week period of supervised practical training in an prosthetic and orthotic company.

Approved required coursework in: VEPRA10/VEPRAD10/VEPRAL10

Passed VERN1400/VERND1400/VERNL1400

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and competence:

Knowledge

The student is capable of

• defining behaviour analytic principles such as reinforcement, stimulus control and motivating operations
• describing the use of behaviour analytic principles to promote socially valid behavioural changes
• describing and justifying training programmes that promote basic skills, activities of daily living and verbal behaviour
• describing the use of behaviour analytic principles to promote socially valid behavioural changes
• describing various types of functional analyses
• explaining methods for measuring behaviour and explaining why various observation and registration methods are suitable for different purposes
• describing the logic behind various types of single subject/N=1 experimental designs
• explaining legislation, ethics, norms and guidelines relating to measures based on behaviour analytic principles and functional analyses, including explaining issues relating to protection of privacy, duty of secrecy, social validity, user participation, self-determination and the use of force and power
• explaining how radical behaviourism, which entails philosophy of science and values in behaviour analysis, is relevant to measures based on behaviour analytic principles.

Skills

The student is capable of

• planning and justifying measures based on behaviour analytic principles that are intended to promote desired behaviour or reduce challenging behaviour
• planning and justifying the use of functional analysis
• measuring behaviour to document the effect of measures based on behaviour analytic principles
• evaluating the effect of measures based on behaviour analytic principles through inspection of visual presentations of single-subject/N=1 experimental designs

Competence

The student

• is capable of describing the use of behaviour analytic principles to promote socially valid behavioural changes
• is capable of explaining practical, normative and ethical issues of importance to deciding on, planning and implementing measures based on behaviour analytic principles
• has the necessary competence to independently implement and measure the effect of measures based on behavioural analytic principles
• is capable of using research articles and other specialized literature in his/her application of behaviour analytic principles to promote behavioural changes

The course includes lectures, supervised group work, workshops and self-study. The student must also participate in skills training, role play and video demonstrations. The student must take two multiple choice tests during the course: before the teaching begins, a pretest will be given to assess the students’ previous knowledge. The students later take a posttest to map each student’s learning/understanding of the teaching. Students can take the posttest up to three times

Emnet omfatter en innføring i juridisk metode og forvaltningsrett. Juridisk metode handler om hva man bygger på og hvordan man resonnerer når man tar stilling til rettsspørsmål. Hovedinnholdet i emnet er alminnelig forvaltningsrett. Dette er rettsreglene som gjelder alle eller de fleste forvaltningsorganene og deres virksomhet.

Ingen forkunnskapskrav.

Kunnskaper

Studenten har

• grunnleggende forståelse for juridisk metode
• kunnskaper om prinsippene som ligger til grunn for all forvaltning, herunder legalitetsprinsippet
• inngående kunnskaper om saksbehandlingsreglene i forvaltningsloven
• kjennskap til reglene om ugyldighet ved myndighetsutøvelse
• kunnskaper om allmennhetenes innsynsrett etter offentlighetsloven
• oversikt over kontrollordningene med forvaltningen

Ferdigheter

Studenten kan anvende lovteksten som rettskilde og drøfte og ta standpunkt til forvaltningsrettslige spørsmål på en forsvarlig juridisk måte.

Generell kompetanse

Studenten kan tilegne seg sentralt fagstoff og anvende dette skriftlig i teoretiske og praktiske oppgaver.

Undervisningen i emnet består i hovedsak av forelesninger, gruppeundervisning og oppgaveløsning.

Studentene skal i dette emnet videreutvikle kompetansen sin i gravejournalistikk / undersøkende metoder. Parallelt med dette skal de utvikle kunnskapen om det norske samfunnet slik at de vet hvordan det fungerer strukturelt og økonomisk.