Assessing Pre-Service Teachers’ Soccer Offensive Game Performance Ability

Abstract

This study aimed to design and validate the Soccer Offensive Game Performance Instrument (SOGPI) that assessed pre-service teachers' offensive game abilities in soccer. One investigator videotaped two 10-minute 3 vs. 3 soccer games played by twelve pre-service teachers at the end of a soccer unit. Two in-vestigators independently coded 480 offensive game behaviors with the SOGPI. The results of t-tests in-dicated that the SOGPI was a valid instrument to differentiate the players' overall game performance and individual game components between the novice and the experience groups. The results of the inter-rater reliability indicated that the SOGPI was a reliable instrument to assess pre-service teachers' offensive game abilities in soccer.