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Wersja polska

Course code: BHS20065o12
Semester: 2012/2013 summer
Name: Research methods in animal science
Major: Animal Science
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 1
ECTS points: 6
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. Andrzej Wiliczkiewicz
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: The course will prepare the student to lead and advise the scientific research, investigations and introductory experiments, to the preparing of reports according to the editorial arrangements as well as to the logic concluding.

Competences: After completing the course student will be familiar with the problematic of organization and managing the scientific experiments with animals; will to know the rules of preparing of field-tests, introductory experiments as well as will be familiar with the rules of editorial preparation of scientific elaborations and report analyses.

Prerequisites: The fundamentals of statistic

Course content: General methodology of experiments; methodology of the observation-based husbandry investigations; the rules of the carrying, modeling, organization and advisory of the experiments; selection of animals to the experiments considering their productivity and behavior; statistical evaluation; interpretation of the result;. the rules of merits and editorial elaboration of results and organization and founding of scientific activity in Poland; ethics of scientific experiments, substantial of copyrights as well as the skill of merits elaboration of common-scientific articles.

Recommended literature: Ruszczyc Z.: 1981Metodyka Doświadczeń Zootechnicznych. PWRiL, Warszawa Łomnicki A.: 1999.Wprowadzenie do statystyki dla przyrodników. PWN, Warszawa Mead R., Curnow R.N., Hasted A.M.: 1993. Statistical Methods in Agriculture and Experimental Biology. Second Edition. Chapman & Hall

Assessment methods: Obligatory completion of practical training Written exam Min. 60 % of knowledge to pass

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