The investigation of active football referees education periods and expectation levels (Turkish Football Federation 3rd region sample)

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The aim of this study is to investigate the active football referees’, who are in Turkish Football Association 3rd Region and classified for Professional leagues, thoughts about football refereing education period and to determine the expectation levels.
Research group includes 172 classified football referees, who are active in 22 cities that belong to Turkish Football Association 3rd Region in 2006–2007 football season.
Questionarie Form, which has 2 sections, was used as data collection tool. First part has 7 questions about personal information. Second part has 29 items to evaluate the efficieny of courses for nominated referees and the seminars for classified referees. Consistency Coefficent (Cronbach Alpha) of the questionarie was checked by the data which was collected by front test. Cronbach Alpha was found 0.89. t-test in dual comparisions and ANOVA in multi-comparisions were used for the analysis of data. Significance level was defined 0.05. LSD test was applied to determine the group or groups which make significant difference.
As a result of the investigation,
1) It was obtained that there is not enough practice in education of nominated referees’ courses and the quality of the education is decreasing because of the fact that there are a lot of nominated referees in the classes.
2) It was obtained that there are deficiencies in the concepts of education environment, content planning, evaluation and instructor in education seminars of classified referees.
3) It was obtained that the experienced referees, who are 35 and over 35, less agree with the efficiency evaluation of Referees education periods compare to young refrees.
4) However it is not significant statistically, it was considerably obtained that football referees who graduated from education faculties, detect referee education periods’ efficiency low compare to the referees who graduated from other faculties.