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A comparison of declarative and procedural knowledge displayed by cricket coaches of different standards
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A comparison of declarative and procedural knowledge displayed by cricket coaches of different standards

S Ayres and Geoff Lovell
Journal of Sports Sciences, Vol.17(12), p.979
World Congress of Science and Medicine in Cricket, 1st (Lilleshall, United Kingdom, 14-Jun-1999–17-Jun-1999)
1999
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/026404199365371
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Human Movement and Sports Science coaches knowledge structure sport psychology
Typical assessment of coaches has paid scant regard to the knowledge structures that underpin their behaviour. The relationship between two of these knowledge structures, procedural and declarative knowledge, has been more closely scrutinized, although most research has focused on the performer' s perspective. Declarative knowledge allows coaches to verbalize the information they possess about the skill being learned; procedural knowledge allows them to demonstrate the skill, an extremely valuable aid to learning in the cognitive stage. It has also been suggested, based upon research on performers, that procedural and declarative knowledge are interlinked (Williams and Davids, 1995: Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 17, 259-275). Therefore, the implications for coach education are that if more advanced coaches have greater procedural knowledge as well as declarative knowledge, coach education programmes may well benefit from incorporating means to facilitate procedural knowledge development, thus, hopefully, furthering declarative knowledge development. However, investigations into the relationship between procedural and declarative knowledge from the perspective of the coach have been minimal: this study aimed to rectify this.

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