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To review assessment instruments for sport-specific technical skills and evaluate their discriminatory, explanatory, and predictive capabilities in youth talent identification and development.

June 3, 2020Sports MedicineOpen Access

Assessing Technical Skills in Talented Youth Athletes: A Systematic Review

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TKTill KoopmannCarl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg IFIrene R. FaberWindesheim University of Applied Sciences JBJoseph BakerBishop's University

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Systematic review reveals strong predictive utility of technical skill testing in youth athletes, highlighting reliance on experimental, outcome-based metrics.

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To review assessment instruments for sport-specific technical skills and evaluate their discriminatory, explanatory, and predictive capabilities in youth talent identification and development.
Searched PubMed, Web of Knowledge, SPORTDiscus, SURF, and Scopus databases for studies published from January 1990 to October 2019.
Identified and reviewed 59 eligible studies focusing on technical skills assessment, athletic performance, skill level, and youth athletes.
Discriminatory, explanatory, or predictive utility for sport-specific technical skills assessment was reported in 93% of the included studies.
Of 69 assessment protocols evaluated, 73% assessed outcome-related variables and 75% were conducted in experimental rather than competition environments.
Identified substantial demographic concentrations: 75% of studies were cross-sectional, 53% evaluated soccer players, 74% evaluated male cohorts, and 64% originated from European countries.

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Koopmann et al. (2020) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a00edba4716aad0cc85dff2 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-020-01299-4

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Systematic review reveals strong predictive utility of technical skill testing in youth athletes, highlighting reliance on experimental, outcome-based metrics.

Assessing Technical Skills in Talented Youth Athletes: A Systematic Review

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Assessing Technical Skills in Talented Youth Athletes: A Systematic Review

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