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Record W4407083756 · doi:10.4324/9781003439646-8

Action Research and the Scholar-Coach

2025· book-chapter· en· W4407083756 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Kristina Skebo, Pirkko Markula

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicCoaching Methods and Impact
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAction (physics)PsychologyPhysics

Abstract

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Over the last few years, multiple sport organisations have garnered national attention because of abusive coaching practices. Although many federations in Canada have begun to address some of these issues by adopting Safe Sport policies, radical change in coach education is needed whereby coaches can learn how to coach differently rather than focusing on what not to do. During Kristina’s, the first author’s, master’s in coaching degree at the University of Alberta, she attempted to address this issue by engaging in an inquiry-based learning (IBL)–inspired action research project. More specifically, Kristina examined skill development in a competitive rhythmic gymnastics setting to explore how to transform her coaching practices to become a more ethical coach. As a pedagogical approach, action research is unique in that it enables coaches to make connections between theory, learning in the classroom and learning in the sport setting. In this chapter, the authors reflect on how action research, as a methodological and pedagogical framework for learning, can be used in graduate coaching degrees to enhance ethical coaching practices.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.017
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.012
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.017
Threshold uncertainty score0.089

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0170.012
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.003
Science and technology studies0.0070.051
Scholarly communication0.0150.011
Open science0.0030.008
Research integrity0.0060.009
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.308
GPT teacher head0.523
Teacher spread0.215 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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