Abstract
Sports Coaching research continues to develop, although with a narrow spread of publication, mainly within Sports Psychology, and small impact across Sports Science journals. Nevertheless, Sports Coaching research potentially investigates an array of basic and applied research questions. Hence, there is an opportunity for improvement. Moreover, there is an increased awareness in several scientific areas, including Sports Science, about several problems pertaining to design, transparency, replicability, and trust of research practices. Particularly in Sports Coaching research, these problems include limited or inadequate validation of surrogate outcomes and lack of multidisciplinary designs, lack of longitudinal and replication studies, inappropriate data analysis and reporting, limited reporting of null or trivial results, and insufficient scientific transparency. In this chapter, we initially discuss the trends of publication in Sports Coaching, highlighting research problems as they pertain to their treatment in other disciplines, namely psychology. Lastly, we illustrate an example applied to Sport Coaching research with a repeated measures design and an interdisciplinary approach as a recommendation to promote transparency, replicability, and trust in Sports Coach research.
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Carvalho, H.M., Gonçalves, C.E. (2020). Coaching in Sports: Implications for Researchers and Coaches. In: Resende, R., Gomes, A.R. (eds) Coaching for Human Development and Performance in Sports. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63912-9_22
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