Sport Coach Education, Development, and Assessment

Sport Coach Education, Development, and Assessment offers a range of coach assessment ideas and practices from leaders in the coach education and development field. A combination of theory- and practice-focused chapters aims to stimulate thoughts, dialogue, and actions.

Liam McCarthy is a senior lecturer in sport coaching at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He is interested in coach education and development practice, programmes, and policy. He has worked globally with a range of national and international sport organisations to think about, design, and deliver coach and coach educator/developer learning opportunities.

1. Coach Education, Development, and Assessment: An Introduction; 2. A Language for Talking About Coach Assessment: Stimulating and Sustaining Productive Conversations; 3. Assessment Theories, Models, and Frameworks: A Review of the Literature; 4. Assessment in Coach Education: A Disjointed Piece of the Curriculum Puzzle?; 5. Reframing Assessment in Coach Education and Development Programmes: Assessment as Learning; 6. An Integrative Framework for Assessment in Coach Education and Development; 7. Developing Metacognitive Skills Through Assessment Activities in a Higher Education Context: A Case Study Of Haaga-Helia Coach Education Programmes; 8. Assessment for Learning in a Sport Coaching Degree in the UK; 9. Engaging Coaches in Formative Assessment: Portfolios as a Strategy in a Learner-Centered University Course; 10. Embedding Learner-Centred Assessments in an Undergraduate Introductory Coaching Course; 11. "We Were the Curriculum": Embedded Assessment in an International Coach Developer Programme; 12. Achieving Multiple Outcomes through Assessment in Belgium: Assessment as Learning and for Certification; 13. Integrating Opportunities to Understand and Promote Learning through Assessment in Coach Development: Australian Perspectives; 14. Sport Coach Assessment in New Zealand: A People-Focused Approach; 15. Assessment of Assessment: Perspectives on How Assessment is Implemented by National Governing Body Coach Education Programmes in the United States; 16. Embedding Innovative Assessment Ideas across a Pathway: Opportunities and Issues; 17. Making Judgements that Help Coaches Learn: An Example from a Category One Football Academy In England