Academic Year/course:
2023/24
429 - Degree in Public Management and Administration
29011 - Information Sources for Decision-Making
Syllabus Information
Academic year:
2023/24
Subject:
29011 - Information Sources for Decision-Making
Faculty / School:
228 - Facultad de Empresa y Gestión Pública
Degree:
429 - Degree in Public Management and Administration
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
2
Semester:
Second semester
Subject type:
Compulsory
Module:
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1. General information
This subject has a fundamental goal: that students develop a series of skills in relation to the search for and gathering of information in order to support the decision-making processes that will be essential when they practice their profession. But, in addition, these same skills are very useful for the training of students as such students in that they will enable them to search for and gather information for their academic performance when carrying out individual or group work. These approaches and objectives are aligned with the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda : objective 4.7 of Goal 4 and objective 8.2 and 8.3 of Goal 8.
2. Learning results
1. Search for information on companies, bibliographic information of a scientific-technical nature, statistical information and legal information to be able to develop the decision-making processes of the public administration from among the most significant general sources of information of each of those types of information.
2. Be able to plan the elaboration of information gathering to be able to develop the processes of adoption of decisions proper of the public administration with the pertinent rigor.
3. It is capable of presenting this collection of information to be able to develop the decision-making processes proper to public administration with the relevant form and contents.
3. Syllabus
Unit 1. Sources of Information and Decision Making in Public Administration.
Unit 2. Documentary supports and new information technologies:
Unit 3. Internet information search tools:
Unit 4. Information sources and databases related to personal and institutional information.
Unit 5. Documentary information sources related to scientific-technical information. Sources of documentary information primary.
Unit 6. Principles and techniques of representation of scientific documents. The information present in the bibliographic records of the bibliographic databases.
Unit 7. How to search for books, journal articles and doctoral theses.
Unit 8. Sources of information and statistical databases.
Unit 9. sources of information and legal databases.
4. Academic activities
4.1. FACE-TO-FACE ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Master class: 30 hours (theoretical-practical sessions in which the contents of the subject will be explained).
Practical exercises: 30 hours (problem solving and case studies, assignments, face-to-face tutorials and field visits to).
Personal study and preparation of practical assignments: 85 hours.
Assessment tests. 5 hours.
4.2. VIRTUAL ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Synchronous and asynchronous activities: 15 hours (theoretical-practical sessions [videoconferences and/or learning pills] at where the contents of the subject will be explained).
Distance learning activities: 15 hours (virtual network work or activities on the Moodle platform or online tutorials).
Personal study and preparation of practical assignments: 115 hours.
Assessment tests. 5 hours.
5. Assessment system
5.1. VIRTUAL MODE
5.1.1. Continuous Assessment:
A. A work of information gathering for the substantiation of a decision-making process: 30%.
The follow-up of these assignments will be done throughout the semester in type 6 hours. This evaluation activity is justified by the need to demonstrate that the student has mastered the practical skills of searching in the databases and on which the files of practical activities in relation to each topic that, as well as each topic, are also have been uploaded on Moodle. This work will be delivered one week after the completion of the second intermediate test. The minimum score will be 5 points out of 10.
B. Two intermediate written and individual tests on theory, problems and practical exercises: 70%. The first includes topics 1 to 7 and the second includes topics 8 and 9. The first test will be at the end of April and the second one at the end of May after the end of the syllabus. These tests will be face-to-face for face-to-face students and online for the virtual modality. These tests are mandatory for those who choose this continuous evaluation option and will be graded from 0 to 10 at , with a 70% impact on the final grade. If the grade obtained in this test is lower than 5, the subject will not be considered passed.
5.1.2. Final comprehensive test: students who do not opt for continuous evaluation, who do not pass the course through the continuous evaluation or who wish to improve their grade, will have the right to take the final comprehensive test consisting of a single exam . It will be face-to-face for both modalities (virtual and face-to-face) on the official dates established according to the center's exam calendar. This exam will account for 100% of the grade.
5.2. PRESENCE-BASED MODALITY
The evaluation system for the on-site modality is the same as for the virtual modality. The main difference lies in the fact that the intermediate tests of continuous evaluation will be carried out in the physical classroom, with the presence of the students.