Designing and Building of a scale for evaluating the management and organization of volleyball championships

Abstract

Purpose: Progress and advancement in almost all area can only be recognized through measurement. In fact, Measurement is regarded as one of the most important tools of assessing and diagnosing point of weakness and strength in the topic under measurement such as championship organization. The importance of the research lies in the necessity of informing those who are responsible for and interested in volleyball that there should be a measurement that can give an objective value to assess the administrative and organizational aspects of championships, usually prearranged by the Central Federation in association with the committee of organization. Such a statistic can be an evidence that reflects the extent of the progress achieved in the organization of championships and the efforts of the officials in charge of these events as well.

Problem: As for the problem of the research, it revolves around questioning the organizers of the championships about the value of the success of the efforts they spend in the process of organizing these championships as well as the value of the success which the championship made on the level of organization. Most of the answers of such questions take the form of subjective estimates. Because of the absence of a scale for this administrative and organizational case giving an objective number of measuring the level of organization.

Method: these researchers using the descriptive method in building the scale and applying it to the committees of management and organization of the championships of volleyball, depending on the data of some of these championships (40 championships) as the research sample. The scientific foundations of the scale (validity, reliability, objectivity, discriminating ability, and degree of difficulty) have been collected.

Results: The level of organization and management of most of the volleyball championships in Iraq is characterized by weakness, and the lowest degree of organization was (34.23%), and some of them did not exceed the good level (72.96%).

Conclusion: this scale should be necessarily used for indicating the degree of evaluation of the administrative and organizational aspects for any levels and in any championships of volleyball.