Samenvatting Talent & Development in Sport
Lecture 1
Definition of talent
• Someone who performs better than his or her peers during training and
competition, and who has the potential to reach elite level.
What is self-regulation?
• Self-regulation in the context of learning and development reflects as an
individual’s capacity to control his or her learning behavior.
• Expressed in line with Zimmerman’s definition:
Which individuals are metacognitively, behaviorally and motivationally
proactive participants in their learning process.
Studies about young talented athletes and education
• The number of talented athletes studying at pre-university is higher than the
national average. This number has been climbing in recent years due to
professionalization of sports.
• The graph below shows that talented athletes are performing better at
school/study, the national average is below the average of talented athletes.
• The graph below shows that talented athletes have:
- the highest percentage in ‘had never to repeat class’
- the highest percentage in ‘not satisfied with 5,5’
- the lowest percentage in ‘hours spend on homework’
,Self-regulatory skills
• Important skills to fulfill your potential and be self-regulatory are:
- Planning= determine how to solve a problem before I begin.
- Self-monitoring = during execution, I keep track of my progress.
- Evaluation = after execution, I check my learning process and the result
achieved.
• During this process there is continue reflection; based on my own
experiences, strengths and weaknesses I set attainment goals to improve.
• Effort and self-efficacy are needed; I am willing to make an effort to reach my
goal and do believe that I have the capabilities to reach the goal.
, How does self-regulation develop?
• People with a lower IQ can compensate with better self-regulatory skills.
• People develop self-regulatory skills naturally.
• People who live in an environment where they encounter goal setting and
feedback tend to develop self-regulation faster.
• The more hours you spend sporting, the more you develop your self-regulatory
skills.
Elite youth athletes and their relationship with self-regulation
• Elite youth athletes are better in reflection than non-athletes are on both pre-
university and pre-vocational level.
• Elite youth athletes are getting better at reflection as they get older, regional
athletes and non-athletes stay on the same level of reflection as they get older.
• Effort decreases as elite youth athletes, regional athletes and non-athletes get
older. When they get older, they understand that putting effort in everything
they do is not helping.
Lecture 1
Definition of talent
• Someone who performs better than his or her peers during training and
competition, and who has the potential to reach elite level.
What is self-regulation?
• Self-regulation in the context of learning and development reflects as an
individual’s capacity to control his or her learning behavior.
• Expressed in line with Zimmerman’s definition:
Which individuals are metacognitively, behaviorally and motivationally
proactive participants in their learning process.
Studies about young talented athletes and education
• The number of talented athletes studying at pre-university is higher than the
national average. This number has been climbing in recent years due to
professionalization of sports.
• The graph below shows that talented athletes are performing better at
school/study, the national average is below the average of talented athletes.
• The graph below shows that talented athletes have:
- the highest percentage in ‘had never to repeat class’
- the highest percentage in ‘not satisfied with 5,5’
- the lowest percentage in ‘hours spend on homework’
,Self-regulatory skills
• Important skills to fulfill your potential and be self-regulatory are:
- Planning= determine how to solve a problem before I begin.
- Self-monitoring = during execution, I keep track of my progress.
- Evaluation = after execution, I check my learning process and the result
achieved.
• During this process there is continue reflection; based on my own
experiences, strengths and weaknesses I set attainment goals to improve.
• Effort and self-efficacy are needed; I am willing to make an effort to reach my
goal and do believe that I have the capabilities to reach the goal.
, How does self-regulation develop?
• People with a lower IQ can compensate with better self-regulatory skills.
• People develop self-regulatory skills naturally.
• People who live in an environment where they encounter goal setting and
feedback tend to develop self-regulation faster.
• The more hours you spend sporting, the more you develop your self-regulatory
skills.
Elite youth athletes and their relationship with self-regulation
• Elite youth athletes are better in reflection than non-athletes are on both pre-
university and pre-vocational level.
• Elite youth athletes are getting better at reflection as they get older, regional
athletes and non-athletes stay on the same level of reflection as they get older.
• Effort decreases as elite youth athletes, regional athletes and non-athletes get
older. When they get older, they understand that putting effort in everything
they do is not helping.
