DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PE TEACHERS AND PE EXPERTS PERSPECTIVES ON THE TALENT RECRUIT FACTORS

Talents recruit is one of the key concepts in sport science and physical education. Athletic talent recruit objectively means identification of persons in comparison with others, with ability for a specific sport. Talents recruit and education is an important part of most sports programs. The aim of this study was to investigate differences in the views of experts and teachers of physical education focuses on the characteristics of sports talent. The population of the study consisted of all sports experts and physical education teachers in Tehran (N=1574), and Tehran counties (N=1744); also there are no accurate statistics on physical education experts. The study sample were purposefully selected based on Sharp Cochran (1979) and consisted of 103 PE teachers and 103 PE experts, with the mean age of the first group (PE teacher) 24/32 years and 11/58 years of experience and the mean age of the second group (PE experts) 32 /98 years and 9/27 years of experience, data collection tool was a questionnaire containing 40 questions that its content validity was assessed by physical education experts using test-retest with the reliability coefficient of 0.896. Kolmogorov–Smirnov test was used to investigate the normal distribution of data that determined the data distribution was not normal. Then, non-parametric Mann–Whitney U test was used. The results showed that there was a significant difference between PE teachers and PE experts regarding anthropometric variables especially in Mother sports (P≥ 0.001), but there was no significant difference regarding the effect of these variables in Ball and Racket sports. There was a significant difference between PE teachers and PE experts regarding physiological variables especially in Racket sports (P≥ 0.001), but there was no significant difference regarding the effect of these variables in Ball and Mother Sports. Moreover, there was no significant difference regarding motor and fitness variables in Ball and Racket Sports. There was a significant difference between PE teachers and PE experts regarding biomechanical variables in Mother and Ball sports (P≥0.01) and Racket sports (P≥ 0.05), There was a significant difference between PE teachers and PE experts regarding psychological variables in Ball and Racket sports (P≥ 0.05) but there was no significant in Mother sports.