Computerized Application for Analysing the Time and lnstructional Paranteters in Sport Coaching and Physical Education Teaching

Abstract

A software made in Visual Basic® is presented here, attending two important competencies in the ftrst formation of any preservice Physical Education (PE) teacher or any sport coach: l) time management available to develop the contents in a school or in the training sessions, and 2)feedback administra/ion for both students and athletes. Time management and feedback administration have been shown as two impottant parameters when evaluating the teaching quality. Because of the utilization of these two parameters, motor learning in schools, skill automation in sport and, at the end, the effectiveness in PE classes and sport training, can be better reached with the enhanced use of time and the correct orientation of the instructions given by teachers and coaches. There are severa! studies that conclude the importance of both indexes: Barret (2000) and Momodu (2000), for time management or AL T-PE -Academic Learning Time in Physical Education-, Johnson and Ward (2001), for feedback administration in PE, or Hastíe (1994), for comparing the influence between the two parameters.