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Project : Critique of Research Article
This project ensures that you are able to read and correctly interpret sport psychology research.
Instructions
Carefully read your chosen journal article (you may need to do several readings to fully understand it). Note the rationale for the study, its purpose, the basic method used, the results, and the discussion of the results. Unless you've had advanced statistical courses, the results section may be difficult to understand, but try to understand as much as you can. Notice that the article's abstract and the discussion section often emphasize the major findings. Answer these questions about the study:
What was the purpose of the study?
How was the study conducted? (Who were the subjects? What did the subjects do?)
What was found in the study?
What are the limitations of the study?
Did the author(s) acknowledge the limitations of the study?
Did the results and discussion seem consistent? Explain.
What implications do the study's findings have for us?
If you were conducting research in this area, what would be the next study you would conduct based on the outcome of this study? That is, where do we go from here?
Remember the following about doing a critique of this study:
I have already read the article, so don't spend as much time summarizing the article as you do critiquing it.
In your critique, don't just focus on the negative aspects of the study. Rather, try to present a balanced view of the study's strengths and limitations.
Evaluation Criteria
Your final project should be typed, double-spaced, and have 1-inch margins. This project will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
Criteria
Weight
Accuracy of interpretation and discussion
20 points (10 points each)
Scope—all questions answered in sufficient detail
15 points
Clarity and quality of writing
10 points
Grammar, spelling, format
5 point
Total
50 points
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Criteria
Weight
Accuracy of interpretation and discussion
20 points (10 points each)
Scope—all questions answered in sufficient detail
15 points
Clarity and quality of writing
10 points
Grammar, spelling, format
5 point
Total
50 points
Explanation / Answer
Q1) The purpose of the study was to find a critical systematic review of research into psychosocial factors associated with talent development in football.
Q2) The study was conducted on a cumulative 14,977 participants and 48 psychosocial factors associated with talent development in football. The design used here was a systematic review informed by the PRISMA guidelines. Tthe method involved getting literature from science direct, sport discus, psycharticles and psychinfo. This was followed by a detailed screening and sifting process to identify the literature. Identified litearture was independently appraised by multiple reviewers using the mixed method appraisal tool. Data was represented using concept mapping.
Q3) The study found that social and psychological factors are interrelated and influence adaptive developmental behaviours. These can influence coach perceptions of players and whether they may recommend players for career progression. Independent MMAT appraisal demonstrated a moderate risk of bias. Female football players and female coaches are significantly under-represented in the literature with white, adolescent, able bodied male European football players dominating the literature. Descriptive, cross sectional, correlational and retrosepctive designs are most commonly adopted in the literature.
Further findings involved psychosocial factors that can be differentiated between performance levels of football or are positively associated with career progression to a senior elite level in football.
Q4) The limitations of the study involved:
a-There is a lack of clarity over some operational terms and classification of playing or coaching levels in studies. Greater clarity in defining player levels is required.
b-The bias towards descriptive, correlational and cross-sectional research designs in quantitative literature has restricted the ability of the research to establish causal relationships between psychosocial factors and talent development in football. Further, retrospective methods dominate the quantitative literature which presents concerns over recall bias and recall error associated with retrospective methods.
c-The predictive validity of the grounded theories used remains untested.
d-Greater representation of female players is required. Greater representation of players from the various forms of impairment specific football is also required.
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