Coach knowledge in talent identification: A systematic review and meta-synthesis

Roberts, Alexandra H.; Greenwood, Daniel; Stanley, Mandy; Humberstone, Clare; Iredale, Fiona; Raynor, Annette J.

doi:10.1016/j.jsams.2019.05.008

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“…Coaches are thought to require strong procedural knowledge about the pedagogical strategies required to help athletes learn effectively (Nash and Collins, 2006) in addition to possessing specific knowledge about their sport. Recent studies have investigated the knowledge of coaches regarding sport-specific topics such as resistance training (Harden et al, 2019), swimming technique (Morris et al, 2019), and talent identification (Roberts et al, 2019). However, a major gap in this growing body of literature about coach knowledge concerns the use of pedagogical techniques such as feedback in coach practice.…”

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“…Qualitative investigations of coach practice such as interviews (Tinning, 1982;Potrac et al, 2002) may assist in providing greater detail about the contexts and constraints that coaches operate under in reality (Kahan, 1999). Recent studies examining coach knowledge (e.g., Roberts et al, 2019) have not yet filled the gap in the area of pedagogical strategies such as feedback.…”

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Sports Coaches’ Knowledge and Beliefs About the Provision, Reception, and Evaluation of Verbal Feedback

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Coach observation studies conducted since the 1970s have sought to determine the quantity and quality of verbal feedback provided by coaches to their athletes. Relatively few studies, however, have sought to determine the knowledge and beliefs of coaches that underpin this provision of feedback. The purpose of the current study was to identify the beliefs and knowledge that elite team sport coaches hold about providing, receiving and evaluating feedback in their training and competition environments. Semistructured interviews conducted with 8 coaches were inductively analyzed, revealing three broad themes: thinking and learning about feedback, providing feedback, and evaluating feedback. Findings revealed a detailed array of knowledge about feedback across a wide range of sub-topics. Coaches saw feedback as a tool to improve performance, build athlete confidence, help athletes to monitor progress, and as a tool to improve their own performance. Novel insights about evaluating an athlete's reception of feedback, and tailoring feedback for individual athletes, were provided by coaches. The findings also highlight areas in which future coach education offerings can better support coaches to provide effective feedback.

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“…Sin embargo, no son aplicadas de forma adecuada para la formación de un deportista y no demandan muchas innovaciones para la captación, la tendencia tecnológica va más por la élite y el alto rendimiento. [18].…”

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Modelo de Tecnologías de Información para la captación del talento deportivo en centros escolares peruanos

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2020

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La presente investigación titulada “Modelo de Tecnologías de Información para la captación del talento deportivo en centros escolares peruanos” nace de la necesidad, por parte de instituciones estatales, de una herramienta de tecnología de información que ayude a las entidades competentes para mejorar la captación de competencias humanas en actividades deportivas y que los centros de educación escolar en el Perú carecen de este instrumento. Es por esta razón, que no todos los talentos son captados y los que se reclutan, en su mayoría, lo son por factores de suerte o voluntad propia. Esta investigación se realizó bajo el enfoque cualitativo y cuantitativo con un alcance descriptivo, donde se aplicó instrumentos como la entrevista y la observación a entrenadores, docentes de educación física, además de personal profesional involucrado en la gestión deportiva. Como producto de este estudio, se ha logrado perfilar un modelo de Tecnología de Información que permite integrar y desarrollar el talento deportivo a través de indicadores competitivos para medir sus destrezas y habilidades, que permitirán comprobar si el atleta captado tiene la capacidad deportiva para competir en los futuros torneos internacionales y reducir significativamente la deserción y pérdida de talentos.

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“…Although historically, talent identification has been performed by coaches and/or scouts (Christensen, 2009;Bergkamp et al, 2019), in the last few decades there has been a shift toward creating evidence-based (i.e., empirically measurable) talent identification procedures in many sports. Interestingly, in measuring the effectiveness and accuracy of this empirical research, subjective coach decisions are often relied upon as the gold standard metric to which their results are compared (Roberts et al, 2019). This reliance on coaches within scientific investigations, along with the multifaceted and dynamic nature of talent (Vaeyens et al, 2008), indicates that coaches do, and will continue to play a significant role in the identification of sporting talent, both in the laboratory and on the field.…”

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Pilot Study on the Reliability of the Coach's Eye: Identifying Talent Throughout a 4-Day Cadet Judo Camp

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A typical assumption found in talent identification literature is that different coaches, given the same athletes and circumstances, will identify the same subset of athletes as “talented”. However, while coaches play a major role during talent identification in practical sport settings, there is limited empirical research exploring the processes which underpin this. The purpose of this study was to explore the reliability of “the coach's eye” during the assessment of talent in a group of athletes. Specifically, this project compared inter-coach agreement between nine judo coaches (ages 35.8 ± 10.6 years) with varying levels of experience (12.9 ± 8.9 years) in the evaluation of 24 talented cadet judo athletes (13–15 years) at seven timepoints throughout a 4-day development training camp. Without discussion of their scores with other coaches, coaches provided a single score representing each athlete's “potential for future performance” on an 11-point Likert scale at each timepoint. Scores from each coach were converted into rankings from 1 to 24 to create a normalized scale to facilitate comparison of athletes. Based on their rankings at each timepoint, athletes were placed into one of three evenly distributed groups (high, medium, and low rank). Inter-coach agreement at each timepoint was determined by the number of coaches who ranked each athlete in the same group, categorized at three levels: 50, 75 or 100% agreement. Overall results showed that at completion of the camp, coaches reached 100% agreement on only two athletes, both of whom were in the high rank group. When inter-coach agreement was set at 50%, 15 athletes (62.5%) were placed into like groups. The first timepoint at which coaches were able to differentiate between the majority of athletes was Timepoint 3 (end of day 2). The findings suggest that, in isolation, coaches do not agree on the talent or potential of athletes. This indicates that the “coach's eye” is subjective and variable, and, given the same context, there is poor inter-coach agreement in the identification of talented athletes. In turn, these findings may have significant implications for both future talent identification research and athlete selection processes by sport organizations.

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Coach knowledge in talent identification: A systematic review and meta-synthesis

Cited by 80 publications

References 41 publications

Sports Coaches’ Knowledge and Beliefs About the Provision, Reception, and Evaluation of Verbal Feedback

Sports Coaches’ Knowledge and Beliefs About the Provision, Reception, and Evaluation of Verbal Feedback

Modelo de Tecnologías de Información para la captación del talento deportivo en centros escolares peruanos

Pilot Study on the Reliability of the Coach's Eye: Identifying Talent Throughout a 4-Day Cadet Judo Camp

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