Formation of Professional and Communicative Competencies in Future Coaches in Olympic and Professional Sports

Abstract

The article is devoted to substantiation, implementation and verification of the effectiveness of the methodology of formation of professional and communicative competence of future coaches in Olympic and professional sports who study at the higher educational institution at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports. The research, which was conducted in 2019-2021, involved 106 students of Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University. Professional and communicative competence in the students of the experimental group (EG, n = 54) was formed on the basis of the author’s methodology in the educative process; the students of the control group (CG, n = 52) studied according to the existing university curriculum. According to the results of the pedagogical experiment, it was found that the increase in the number of students with a high level of professional and communicative competence formedness in the EG is 7.4%, in the CG is 1.9 %; with a sufficient level – in the EG – 9.3 %, in the CG – 3.8 %. At the same time, the number of students with a low level of professional and communicative competence decreased by 20.4 % in the process of pedagogical experiment in the EG, and by 7.7 % in the CG. The analysis showed the high efficiency of the author’s methodology of professional and communicative competence forming in future coaches in Olympic and professional sports.