Research on Educational Sport

Identify and prioritize the opportunities and challenges of champion school plan with the AHP method.

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 MA student of sport management,University of Science and Research Branch, Tehran

2 Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran

Abstract
The purpose of this study was Identify and prioritize the opportunities and challenges of champion school plan with the AHP method. In order to identify the opportunities and challenges of the champion's school plan in student sport, the study of existing documents, the study of theoretical foundations and interviews with experts will first be examined. In order to prioritize identified factors, a paired questionnaire is proposed based on Hierarchical analysis method was used. The statistical population of the study consisted of experts in the field of student sport. The findings of the qualitative section of the research showed that the main challenges (main factors) include of optimizing the heroic school plan are material and spiritual, technical and managerial, legal, cultural-social and economic factors. Also, the main opportunities (main factors) include of individual, organizational, social and economic factors. In the second stage of the research, quantitative data were collected in the form of AHP questionnaires and analyzed according to the hierarchical analysis process for prioritizing, main factors and sub factors. The results of the Championship School Challenge show that material and financial factors with a relative weight of 0.326 and in the Opportunities section the social factor with the relative weight of 0.413 is most important. It seems that utilizing smart systems, revise the technical instructions, training of managers and stakeholders, government support from companies and institutions supporting sports schools, conducting competitions in polar or league form could be useful to institutionalization of Champion School plan.

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Research on Educational Sport
Volume 8, Issue 18
June 2020
Pages 135-156

  • Receive Date 02 September 2018
  • Revise Date 31 December 2018
  • Accept Date 19 January 2019

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