Är det alltid rätt person som vinner? - DiVA
Är det alltid rätt person som vinner? - DiVA
Är det alltid rätt person som vinner? - DiVA
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ABSTRACT<br />
Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport where the results are decided by<br />
judges in accordance with the regulations of the sport and the performance<br />
of the gymnast. As in any other competitive sport the results in<br />
Rhythmic gymnastics are of great importance and athletes in the sport<br />
are putting in enormous time to reach their goals. The purpose of this<br />
report was to look at the reliability and validity of the judgements in<br />
this sport. The rule system in the sport has changed a lot during the<br />
last years and in this report these changes, the reasons and the results<br />
of the changes are studied. The focus is to study the implications the<br />
rule system and the changes has on the reliability, i.e. the stability and<br />
the consistency in the judgements and validity, i.e., the content, how<br />
well the judgements measures the “right” things. The report is based<br />
both on interviews and studies of the rules and regulations in the sport.<br />
Eight structured individual one-hour interviews with four gymnasts,<br />
two coaches and two judges in rhythmic gymnastics, all with long<br />
experience of competitive rhythmic gymnastics, where made and the<br />
rule system and the changes in the rules are studied from four rulebooks<br />
(1983, 1989, 1993 and 1997). Discussions have also taken place<br />
with a member of the European Gymnastic federation (E.U.G.). The<br />
results of the study indicated that changes in the rule system has been<br />
done both to improve the reliability and to improve the validity of the<br />
judgements. Concerning the reliability it seems like the changes has<br />
increased the reliability but concerning the validity the interviewed<br />
<strong>person</strong>s reported that there still are <strong>som</strong>e deficiency and that more<br />
changes continuous should be done to improve the validity. One<br />
specific problem in rhythmic gymnastics is also that the coaches and<br />
judges a lot of time rather often are the same <strong>person</strong>, i.e. that coaches<br />
judges their own athletes, and this fact rises the question about subjective<br />
judging and how to prevent that.