A Study On Competency Model Constructing And Competency Measurement Of Professional Coaches In China

This research aims at constructing the professional coaches' competency model and developing relative assessment scale in order to comprehend the present conditions and characteristics of their competency in China.This paper,basing on documental analysis,adopts behavior event interview,psychometrics and other methods to carry out a series of empirical studies on the competence model and relative assessment forms of coaches.With the combination of qualitative research and quantitative research,the main results and conclusion are as follows.Firstly,competency model of professional coaches summarizes the competency in theory and has been validated.To construct the professional coaches' competency model includes nine characteristics. They are knowledge obtaining,innovation,teamwork,communication with athletes,authority,attention to details,insight,solutions and analysis thinking.It has been validated by self assessment test that this model appropriately summarizes the competency of coaches.Secondly,assessment scale of professional coaches' competency gained good reliability and validity in application.This test includes nine subscales which have thirty-six items.The nine subscales are knowledge obtaining,innovation,teamwork,communication with athletes, authority,attention to details,insight,solutions and analysis thinking and each has four items.The result of psychometric properties on the test demonstrates that the Crombachαis between.632 and.883 in each subscale and the totalαis.924.The outcome of the test on the structure model is also acceptable.Thirdly,there exists different levels and characteristics between coaches' competency with different grades,coaching experiences and sports events.Currently,the whole level of professional coaches' competency in China is relatively high and the average score of the nine subscales is above five.Coaches with different grades possess separate significant differences in the dimension of knowledge obtain,innovation, communication with athletes,authority,insight,solutions and analysis thinking;coaches with different training experiences greatly differ in innovation,authority,insight,solutions and the whole score;coaches who are physical performance leading and those skill leading ones are extremely unlike in aspects of innovation and attention to details, besides the second category gains a higher score than the first.However, coaches of individual event and group event only go far away in teamwork and the later group gains a higher score.Fourthly,there exists close relationship between the coaches' competency and the athlete's satisfaction on the coaches' teaching action.This relationship is significant.In spite of the demographic variables,there is remarkable effect between coaches' competency and athletes' satisfaction on training,guiding,democratic behavior, individual care,strategy selection and on-the-spot conduct,though with different level in every aspect.Innovation,attention to details and analysis thinking influence largely on the athletes' satisfaction in the aspects of coaches' training and guiding;communication with athletes and authority in democratic behavior;communication with athletes and attention to details in individual care;solutions in strategy selection;attention to details and insight in on-the-spot conduct.