This paper focuses on constructing and validating a survey instrument to determine the sport management competencies and to develop a sport management competency model. The initial Competencies of Sport Managers (COSM) instrument was constructed by reviewing the related literature followed by the expert jury's validation. It was then pilot-tested on 223 sport managers, from which in 96 competency statements resulted. The final COSM was administered to 1,334 sport managers and the resultant 816 valid responses were randomly split into two equal halves. The first half of the data were analyzed using exploratory factor analysis and the scree test indicated a Six-Factor Model consisting of 31 competency statements. These six factors were named: (1) governance, (2) sport foundations, (3) budgeting, (4) risk management, (5) computer skills, and (6) communications. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed using the second half of the data and several goodness-of-fit indices indicated that the Six-Factor Model adequately fits the data set.
The purpose of the study was to employ a narrative meta-analysis approach to explore the original study and replications of the Recreational Sports Competency Analysis (RSCA) (Jamieson, 1980). Several researchers ((Jamieson, 1980; Ulrich and Parkhouse, 1982; Jennings, 1984; and Parks and Quain, 1986) have documented the importance of sound curriculum development in sport management and resultant curriculum. Two research questions were posed to elicit what aspects might be applicable for comparison and what statistical analyses, if any, can be performed through a narrative meta-analysis. Four instruments were chosen for analysis. A thorough narrative meta-analysis revealed similarities in several areas and all contributed to content validation of the instrument. It was also found that data may lead itself to statistical analysis in a limited fashion, but cannot replace a more systematic development of a more valid and reliable instrument.
Traditional administrative locations for sport management program have been in recreation and park administration and physical education departments. The purpose of this study was to explore the conceptual framework around the development of sport management curricula. Content analysis process applied to 120 articles dealing with sport management curriculum and practice revealed two major schools of thought: one from a physical education/kinesiology perspective and the other from a recreation/leisure studies perspective. A data collection matrix posed a conceptual model that graphically described components of these schools. This model can be further tested and validated further to provide a framework for future curricular development.
LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in English; abstract also in Chinese.The notion of leisure education can trace its roots far back to Ancient Greece. The aim of leisure education is not to increase the number of subjects offered by the schools, but rather to infuse the values of leisure into the existing subjects. The objective is to guide the students in making good use of their leisure, which in fact is one of the secondary school curriculum aims. Besides presenting some of the important developments of leisure education in American public schools, this paper also highlights some of the reasons why leisure education fails in the United States. These problems are relevant to us especially if we want to make leisure education in Hong Kong a reality one day.休閒教育的起源可追溯到古希臘時代。休閒教育的目的不在於增加學校的科目,而是將休閒的價値溶入目前學校既有的科目中,引導學生善用閒暇時間,這也正是香港的教育目標之一。美國學校的休閒教育可說是失敗的。本文首先提出休閒教育在美國的一些重要發展,然後舉出一些造成他們失敗的可能原因,若是有朝一日休閒教育在本港萌芽,那麼我們就不得不重視這些我們也可能面對的問題。
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.