Sport Management
Meimanat Abedini Baltork; Mozhgan Memarmoghaddam; Afsaneh Yanpi
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Objective: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the planned and implemented curriculum of the undergraduate sports science major University of Mazandaran.Methodology: This research was designed quantitatively and followed the descriptive survey method. The statistical population included ...
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Objective: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the planned and implemented curriculum of the undergraduate sports science major University of Mazandaran.Methodology: This research was designed quantitatively and followed the descriptive survey method. The statistical population included 22 professors and 340 students of the Sport Sciences major at the University of Mazandaran in the academic year 2023-2024, respectively. To select the professors, the census sampling method was employed, and to select the students, Morgan's table and proportional stratified random sampling were used, resulting in the selection of 181 students to participate in the study. The research instruments included researcher-made questionnaires for professors and students, along with a quantitative classroom observation checklist. These tools were designed to assess both the intended and implemented curriculum, and their content validity was calculated as 89%. The reliability of the questionnaires, calculated using Cronbach's alpha, was as follows: for the intended curriculum, 0.97 (professors' questionnaire) and 0.90 (students' questionnaire); for the implemented curriculum, 0.96 (professors' questionnaire) and 0.83 (students' questionnaire. . The reliability of the observation tool using the coefficient of agreement was also obtained as 0.92. Descriptive statistics (percentage and frequency) and inferential statistics (dependent t-test and one-sample t-test) were used to analyze the collected data.Results The results showed that from the professors' perspective, there was a fundamental gap between the intended and implemented curriculum in all elements (goal, content, teaching-learning strategy, and evaluation). From the students' perspective, there was a gap between the intended and implemented curriculum in terms of goals, as well as in other elements (content, teaching-learning strategy, and evaluation. The results from classroom observation also indicated that there was no congruence between the implemented and intended curriculum.Conclusion: The existence of a gap between the intended and implemented curriculum shows that a revision of the curriculum is necessary to improve the quality of education in this field. Also, in order to realize the approved curricula, a set of factors is needed to reach the implementation stage properly.
Sport Economics, Marketing and Tourism
Mehrnaz Sabzemeidani; Vahid Shojaei; Mohammad Hami
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Objective: The objective of this study was to presenting a conceptual model of influencing factors on entrepreneurship education in universities (study of sports science students).Methodology: The research method was qualitative and based on grounded theory. The statistical population of the research ...
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Objective: The objective of this study was to presenting a conceptual model of influencing factors on entrepreneurship education in universities (study of sports science students).Methodology: The research method was qualitative and based on grounded theory. The statistical population of the research included faculty members of entrepreneurial management faculties of state universities, faculty members of sports science faculties of state universities across the country with entrepreneurship expertise, special and selected members and lecturers of the employment and entrepreneurship working group of the Ministry of Sports and Youth, and selected sports entrepreneurs of the country. Sampling was determined by snowball method. Data was collected from library sources and previous researches and semi-structured interviews. Next, 19 experts were interviewed, and opinion saturation was reached in 15 people. Then the interview data was analyzed by MAXQDA software.Results: It was analyzed within the framework of five components: causal conditions, contextual conditions, intervening conditions, the core phenomenon (sports entrepreneurship education), strategies, and consequences. The approaches were extracted across behavioral, business-oriented, creativity-centered, human resource development, communicative quality, personal development, and social domains.Conclusion: Conclusion: According to the results of the research, it can be concluded that the changes towards the global and knowledge-based economy have created new opportunities and threats for entrepreneurial businesses. Exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities helps the efforts of sports entrepreneurs in shaping sustainable competitive advantage and wealth creation. It is also possible for sports entrepreneurs to identify and exploit opportunities that lead to creating a temporary advantage instead of creating a sustainable competitive advantage. Therefore, the programs should be directed towards creativity and innovation and by combining theoretical and practical knowledge related to sports entrepreneurship, they should move from a knowledge-oriented university to an entrepreneurial university.
