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COACHES' PERCEPTIONS OF COMPETENCE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF TRAINING NEEDS RELATED TO PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCES |
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Sofia Santos1, Isabel Mesquita1  ,
Amândio Graça1 and António Rosado1 |
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1Centre of Research, Education, Innovation and Intervention in Sport, University of Porto, Sport Faculty, Portugal 2Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Lisbon, Portugal |
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© Journal of Sports Science and Medicine (2010) 9, 62 - 70 |
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| ABSTRACT | |||
| The purpose of the present study was to examine coaches' perceptions
of competence and acknowledgement of training needs related to professional
competences according to the professional experience and academic education.
The participants were 343 coaches from several sports, who answered to a
questionnaire that includes a scale focused on perceptions of competence
and another scale on acknowledgment of training needs. An exploratory factor
analysis with Maximum Likelihood Factoring was used with Oblimin rotation
for the identification of emergent factors. Comparison on coaches' perceptions
in function of coaching experience and coaches' academic background were
made applying One-way ANOVA and Tukey's post hoc multiple comparisons. Factor
analysis on coaches' perceptions of competence and acknowledgement of training
needs made apparent three main areas of competences, i.e. competences related
to annual and multi-annual planning; competences related to orientation
towards practice and competition; and personal and coaching education competences.
Coaches' perceptions were influenced by their experience, as low experienced
coaches rated themselves at lower levels of competence and with more training
needs; also coaches with high education, in Physical Education or others,
perceived themselves as more competent than coaches with no higher education.
Finally, the majority of the coaches perceived themselves to be competent
but, nevertheless, they indicated to have training needs, which brings an
important feedback to coach education. This suggests that coaches are interested
in increasing their knowledge and competence in a broad range of areas which
should be considered in future coach education programs.
Key words: Coaching education, perceptions of competence, professional competences, science of coaching, training needs. |
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