Practice and Challenges of Talent Identification in Athletics Events at Ethiopian Youth Sport Acadamy
| dc.contributor.advisor | Tades, Wendimu (professor) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Seyoum, Yonatan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-31T10:58:56Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-09T16:18:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-08-31T10:58:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-09T16:18:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-06-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this study was to assess the practice and challenges of talent identification in athletics events at the Ethiopian youth sports academy. The design of the study was a descriptive Survey. The subjects in this study were 75 athletes, 5 athletics coaches, 2 academy directors. Data were collected through questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and document analysis. The data gathered were analyzed and interpreted by using descriptive and inferential statistical methods. Both qualitative and quantitative methods (approaches) were employed in this study. To gather the data for this study, the stratified sampling technique was used to select athletes and purposive sampling technics are applied to select Coaches and Academy Directors. The results of findings show that the mean score of the four independent factors (environmental or sociological, physical and physiological, psychological factor, facility and equipment) were 1.7416, 1.5208 and 1.4715 and 1.7533 respectively, means that facility and equipment were relatively the dominate variables used by the academy in talent identification. Also, it was concluded that all the factors (facility and equipment, psychological, physical and physiological, environmental or sociological) have a positive and statistically significant relationship with talent identification, from those factors, the physical and physiological factor has a high effect on the process of selecting talented athletes above all the other factors. Finally, it was recommended that work on coaching expertise at the grassroots level, develop and apply standardized scientific talent identification criteria and methods, fulfill basic athletics facility and equipment’s for the process of talent identification, give full attention, follow-up, and support from all concerned bodies, prepare strategic competition opportunities in all regions and give a chance for athletes to participate in it, Produce a healthy, strong bond between regional and national athletics federations, regions, and academy, build talent identification center at a regional and national level. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/22203 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Talent Identification | en_US |
| dc.subject | Athlete | en_US |
| dc.subject | Athletics | en_US |
| dc.subject | Athletics Events | en_US |
| dc.title | Practice and Challenges of Talent Identification in Athletics Events at Ethiopian Youth Sport Acadamy | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |