Ninth International Conference on Sport & Society

Abstract

This study aims to construct and validate the evaluation scale for rating the performance of senior women volleyball player in India. The sample for the study was senior women volleyball players of India. In all six volleyball skills namely, Service, Attack, Block, Reception, Set and Defense were investigated in the study. Feedback of twenty expert coaches was taken twice in the study to construct the rating scale. All the experts were national volleyball coaches of India having more than 20 years of experience. Sixteen expert’s opinion was considered in the first feedback and ten experts opinion were recorded in second feedback. The initial draft of the evaluation criteria was prepared using research reviews were sent to 16 coaches for the feedback in first phase. The initial draft had eight parameters namely; Considered, Modification, New Suggestion, Split, Merge, Upgrade, Degrade, and Rejected. The experts provided their input on these eight options along with subjective suggestions. The data so obtained was used to compute Lawshe’s content validity ratio (CVR). The first phase feedback suggested some modifications which were incorporated in second phase of feedback from the coaches. In second phase opinion of ten coaches were obtained and again CVR was computed which was .70. As per the lawshe’s criteria the scale had significant content validity at 5% level. This indicates that PERS is valid tool to rate women’s performance in volleyball.