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Are youth sport talent identification and development systems necessary and healthy?
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Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research
Variable and Changing Trajectories in Youth Athlete Development
Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
An evidence-based approach to assessing the effectiveness of training regimen on athlete performance: Youth soccer as a case study
2022 •
James Nichols
Sports Medicine
Assessing Technical Skills in Talented Youth Athletes: A Systematic Review
2020 •
Irene Faber
BackgroundTalent identification and development (TID) programs aim to identify players with the greatest potential for long-term success. Previous research suggests that the assessment of sport-specific technical skills is valuable for discriminating between more and less skilled individuals and/or for predicting future performance.ObjectiveThis review aims to provide an overview on both the instruments used to assess sport-specific technical skills and their discriminatory, explanatory and/or predictive findings in the context of TID.MethodsElectronic searches were conducted in PubMed, Web of Knowledge, SPORTDiscus, SURF and Scopus (January 1990–October 2019). Search terms covered the areas of sport, technical skills assessment, performance, skill level and youth. In the end, 59 relevant studies were identified and evaluated.ResultsThe results highlight the widespread and important role of technical skills in TID; almost all studies (93%) reported discriminatory, explanatory and/or...
ITF Coaching & Sport Science Review
Fitness testing and players' development: Are we going the right way?
2017 •
Hrvoje Zmajic
International Journal of Human Movement and Sports Sciences
A Multidimensional Conceptual Framework for Sport Talent Identification and Development in Early Childhood: A Systematic Review
2023 •
Horizon Research Publishing(HRPUB) Kevin Nelson
The identification and development of sports talent in early childhood should focus more on development rather than simply identifying talent. This study provides a systematic analysis of various research articles published between 2017 and 2021 related to the identification and development of sports talent in early childhood. This research is an active response to the first socialization of the "AYO OLAHRAGA" Movement by the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the “Gerakan Hidup Masyarakat Sehat” (Germas) developed by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia in 2017. International databases such as Google Schoolar, Tandfoline, Sciencedirect, and Proquest, totalling 1759 articles were used in the initial literature search with a final 11 articles chosen according to the research objectives. The articles were analyzed using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) approach which consisted of 3 (three) steps, reading the article, extracting the contents of the article, and analyzing and drawing conclusions. The 11 selected articles revealed that the process of identification and the development of sports talent in early childhood cannot be treated separately. 73% of the articles stated that the identification of early childhood sports talent needed to measure children’s physical aspects, especially their fundamental motor skills (FMS). In addition to the measurement of physical aspects, it is also considered necessary to include psychological (36%) and sociological aspects (27%) of development. This empirical evidence analyzed in this document can become the conceptual basis for developing further research on the identification and development of multidimensional sports talent in early childhood.
GYMNASIUM
Structure of Talent and Individual Sports Profiles in Late Childhood
2019 •
Gheorghe Balint
The purpose of the study was to determine individual profiles of sports preconditions in 6- and 7-year-old children and recommend sports according to test scores and individual sports profiles. Data were collected from 1st graders at elementary schools. The children participated in organized sports practice in sports clubs. The sample included 42 boys and 3 girls. Of these, 16 children engaged in soccer practice and 29 children engaged in ice hockey practice. Children performed 10 motor tests (Měkota & Blahuš, 1983; Šimonek, 2015): repeated routing with a stick, flexed arm hang, standing long jump, shuttle run agility test, 20-meter sprint, endurance shuttle run, sit-ups, sit-and-reach test, and rollingof-three-balls test. To assess decision-making processes, children played a flag chasing game. The results of the correlation analysis showed that correlations among tests were similar for both groups. The individual sports profiles that were applied to determine the appropriateness o...
The Sport psychologist
Assessment in Youth Sport: Practical Issues and Best Practice Guidelines
2013 •
Amanda Visek, Dr. Lindsey Blom
Assessment is an important element to the present and future of sport psychology (McCann et al., 2002), both in science and in practice. Yet, there exist few resources addressing the unique developmental parameters facing sport scientists and sport practitioners when it comes to conducting sound assessment across the athletic lifespan. Indeed, this aspect of the literature remains particularly sparse with respect to youth sport assessment (Noble, 2011). Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to provide an understanding of the practical issues and best practice guidelines pertaining to assessment during the provision of sport psychology services to children and adolescent athletes.
European Journal of Adapted Physical Activity
A review of studies using the Körperkoordinationstest für Kinder (KTK)
2015 •
Arja Sääkslahti
