Psychometric validation of the Tactical Assessment Instrument in Football (TAIS) 12 for Use in Physical Education and with youth sport teams

Barquero-Ruiz, Carmen; Kirk, David; Meroño, Lourdes; Arias-Estero, José L.

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Psychometric validation of the Tactical Assessment Instrument in Football (TAIS) 12 for Use in Physical Education and with youth sport teams

dc.contributor.author	Barquero-Ruiz, Carmen
dc.contributor.author	Kirk, David
dc.contributor.author	Meroño, Lourdes
dc.contributor.author	Arias-Estero, José L.
dc.contributor.department	Expresión Plástica, Musical y Dinámica	es
dc.date.accessioned	2025-09-02T07:52:36Z
dc.date.available	2025-09-02T07:52:36Z
dc.date.issued	2023-12-29
dc.description	© 2024, Authors. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. This document is the Accepted version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Perceptual and Motor Skills. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1177/00315125231225579	es
dc.description.abstract	Recently, the Tactical Assessment Instrument in Football (TAIS) was developed to address football’s tactical requirements in terms of game phases, learners’ roles, and organizational levels of play. In this study, we sought to evaluate the psychometric properties of this existing instrument in the Physical Education (PE) context and for youth sport teams (ages 8–12 years). Our research design involved: (a) participants playing 37 football games, (b) assessing participants via observation with the TAIS and (c) conducting psychometric analysis on the obtained assessment data. For the psychometric analysis, we carried out our work in four phases: (a) a statistical analysis of the evaluation criteria, (b) analysis of the instrument’s structural dimensions, (c) internal item reliability analysis, and (d) provision of evidence for external validity. Participants were 592 children (156 girls, 436 boys; ages 8–12 years) from 74 PE classes or sport teams (from three institutional contexts - schools, community-based sports, and sports clubs) in Spain. We selected 12 tactical criteria and grouped them into four theoretical dimensions (appropriate attack, inappropriate attack, appropriate defense, inappropriate defense) to confirm the instrument’s structural dimensions. The Cronbach alpha and Omega McDonald coefficients were greater than .70. The TAIS discriminated between participants from the three institutional contexts, offering evidence of the instrument’s external validity. Thus, the TAIS now has sufficient psychometric support for assessing learning of football tactics in PE and youth sport teams. This instrument facilitates an ecological assessment of youth players’ understanding of football tactics through four theoretical tactical dimensions and 12 criteria involving information about four learners’ roles (both attack and defense, on- and off-the-ball) and three organizational tactical levels of play (whole team, small groups of learners, and individual learners).	es
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dc.identifier.citation	Perceptual and Motor Skills, 131(2), 589–611
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1177/00315125231225579
dc.identifier.issn	Print: 0031-5125
dc.identifier.issn	Electronic: 1558-688X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/158048
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	SAGE Publications	es
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad	es
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00315125231225579	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Sport pedagogy	es
dc.subject	Game-Based Approaches	es
dc.subject	Ecological Assessment	es
dc.subject	Youth football	es
dc.subject	Game assessment instrument	es
dc.title	Psychometric validation of the Tactical Assessment Instrument in Football (TAIS) 12 for Use in Physical Education and with youth sport teams	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication	es