Skill and performance development in sports and school – Research – Department of Sociology and Political Science
Skill and Performance Development in Sports and School
Both the sports and school context are characterized by the relationship between skill development and performance, where athletes and students learn and develop skills related to sports and physical activity respectively. The coach and the teacher are important contributors to ensuring the athletes development, but also the environments that the athletes/students and coaches/teachers are part of have a crucial role for their development. In this context, it is worth mentioning that for some, sports and school are closely intertwined through i.e. sport specialisation programs (SSPs) and elite sport specialisation programs (ESSPs) in upper secondary schools.
Athletes/students are themselves the most important contributors to their own development and performance. Important questions are therefore what characterizes their development and how parents, friends, coaches and teachers contribute to this development. In order to develop skills, athletes/students are dependent on knowing what’s expected from, what skills they should develop and which stage of development they are in. To what extent these requirements are clearly communicated to athletes/students (do they know?) can be discussed.
Our research group works extensively with this themes in both the sports and school context. Some of the topics that our research deals with are individual characteristics of the practitioners and the students such as; motivation, stress and perfectionism, and characteristics of the environments they are part of such as; communication, the importance of performance, motivational climate and coaching style.
Publications
Books (in Norwegian)
- Stig Arve Sæther (2019) (Redaktør) Idrettsvitenskap. Perspektiver og praksis. Universitetsforlaget: Oslo.
- Stig Arve Sæther (2017) De norske fotballtalentene.
- Stig Arve Sæther (2015) (redaktør) Trenerroller. Fagbokforlaget: Bergen.
Articles (in English)
- Flatgård, G., Larsen, C.H. & Sæther, S.A. (2020) Talent development environment in a professional football club in Norway. Scandinavian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2, 8-15.
- Øvretveit, K., Sæther , S.A., & Mehus , I. (2019) Mastery goals are associated with training effort in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Journal of Physical Education and Sport, 19, 4, 1294-1299.
- Johansen, B. T., Østrem, K., Sæther, S. A. & Erikstad, M. K. (2019). Relative age and perceptions of soccer specific skills among elite youth players in Norway. Current Issues in Sport Science
- Øvretveit, K. & Tøien, T. Maximal strength training improves strength performance in grapplers. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research.
- Øvretveit, K. (2018) Acute physiological and perceptual responses to Brazilian jiu-jitsu sparring: the role of maximal oxygen uptake. International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport. vol. 18 (3).
- Øvretveit, K. (2018) Anthropometric and physiological characteristics of Brazilian jiu-jitsu athletes. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. vol. 32 (4).
- Engan, C. & Sæther, S. A. (2018) Goal Orientations, Motivational Climate and Stress Perception in Elite Junior Football Players: A Comparison of Club Levels. Journal of Physical Education and Sport,1, 107-113.
- Sæther, S.A, Peterson, T, & Matin, W. (2017) The relative age effect, height and weight characteristics among lower and upper secondary school athletes in Norway and Sweden, Sports, 5, 4.
- Klund, F. & Sæther, S. A. (2017) Relationships Between Perfectionism, Training Load and Elite Junior Football Players’ Self-Assessed and Coach-Assessed Skills. The Sport Journal.
- Lagestad, P., Sæther, S. A. & Ulvik, A. (2017) Differences in coaching feedback between coaches of junior elite soccer players and junior amateur soccer players.
- Sæther, S. A.,, Aspvik, N.P., & Høigaard, R. (2017) Norwegian football academy players – players’ characteristics, stress and coach-athlete relationship. The Open Sports Sciences Journal, 10, 141-150.
- Sæther, S. A. (2017) Characteristics of Professional and Non-Professional Football Players – An Eight-Year Follow-Up of Three Age Cohorts. Montenegrin Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, 2, 13-18.
- Matin, V. & Sæther, S. A. (2017) Talented high school football players’ perception of talent identification criteria. Sport Mont Journal, 2, 3-7.
- Sæther, S.A. & Aspvik, N.P. (2017) Descriptive analysis of Objectively Assessed Physical activity among talented soccer players – a study of 3 Norwegian professional football clubs. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 2, 1-5.
- Nerland, E. & Sæther, S. A. (2016) Norwegian football academy players – Players self-assessed competence, Perfectionism, Goal orientations and Motivational climate. Sport Mont Journal, 2, 7-11.
- Sæther, S. A.& Aspvik, N. P. (2016) Norwegian junior football players - player´s perception of stress according to playing time. Sport Science Review, 1-2, 85-96.
- Sæther, S. A. (2016) Presence of the relative age effect and its effect on playing time among under-20 players in the Norwegian premier league Tippeligaen - a four year follow up. Montenegrin Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, 1, 11-15
About the project in media
- Associate professor Stig Arve Sæther on Candian Television about the secrets behind the Norwegian success in the winter olympics
- Too much practice can ruin the career of talented players, Sportmember.com, 28.08.17
- Young talented footballers overtrain, ScienceNordic 27.01.15
- How Norway Scores So Much Olympic Gold Gets. The Wall Street Journal, 08.02.15
- How do kids who excel in sports become real stars? ScienceNordic 29.09.14
Researchers
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Nils Petter Aspvik Assistant Professor, Sport science.
+47-73591757 +47-92648033 nils.petter.aspvik@ntnu.no Department of Sociology and Political Science -
Rune Høigaard Professor
+47-41474163 rune.hoigaard@ntnu.no Department of Sociology and Political Science -
Ingar Mehus Associate Professor
+47-73591619 ingar.mehus@ntnu.no Department of Sociology and Political Science -
Martin Nesse PhD Candidate
+47-73559625 martin.nesse@ntnu.no Department of Sociology and Political Science -
Stig Arve Sæther Associate Professor (sport science)
+47-73551133 +47-92011842 stigarve@ntnu.no Department of Sociology and Political Science
External member of Research Group
Master students connected to the research group
- Anders Nygaard
- Mats Iversen
- Mads Olstad Rugroten
- Marchus Hem
- Henriette Bolstad Banne