Improving the quality of sports coaching

Overview

Discover how sports coach UK’s Melina Timson-Katchis, Research Consultant, foresees the use and importance of NVivo 8 for the organization. sports coach UK is dedicated to guiding the development and implementation of a world leading coaching system for all coaches at every level in the UK.

Melina is leading sports coach UK’s Coach Tracking Study. The four year study of UK coaches is the largest and most in-depth study of coaches in the world and involves more than 2000 professionals across the UK.

The research examines coaches’ development as coaching professionals and seeks to understand the impact of coach education and support programs over time. sports coach UK’s work is particularly poignant given the increased use of coaching by the general public and the importance of high quality coaching to elite development, especially in the run up to the 2012 Olympics.

“The main feature of the program ( NVivo 8 ) that attracted us was the ability it will give us to organize the large amount of data we have coming through, without relying on lots and lots of paper. We have just under 900 pages of transcripts from the ‘year one interviews’…the software will help us analyze and retrieve data more quickly, share it amongst the team and manage the information year on year.

“( NVivo 8 ) will make analysis so much easier and more in-depth but more importantly it will give us additional support as a team. A lot of our projects are interlinked, so being able to retrieve data from many sources for one particular project will strengthen our work. It will also enhance the efficiency of our team. We all work on varied projects and due to the nature of our work we are not always together in the office at the same time. (NVivo) will help us to co-ordinate things much better.”