Sport Management Journal

Identifying the Factors Affecting the Ranking of Faculties Participating in Student Sport Festival of University of Tehran

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Setatira Rouhanian Barfjani 1
Loghman Keshavarz 2
Leila Mohammadi 3

1 M.Sc. of Sport Management, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran

2 Assist Professor, Departmant of Sport Management, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran

3 M.Sc. of Sport Management, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22059/jsm.2019.281575.2276
Abstract
This study aimed at ranking those faculties participating in the Student Sport Festival of University of Tehran. The present study was descriptive-analytical and a field study. The statistical population consisted of all physical education experts of University of Tehran, director and his deputy and staff of physical education department of University of Tehran and some physical education professors of this university (N=30). According to the statistical population, the statistical sample was selected by convenience and census sampling methods. In order to collect data, a researcher-made questionnaire (28 items) was used. The face and content validity of the questionnaire were confirmed by physical education supervisors, advisors and experts and the reliability of the questionnaire was reported by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient as 0.87. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses, Friedman test) were used in SPSS software version 22 and structural equation modeling with AMOS software. Based on the exploratory factor analysis, 6 factors were extracted from the research items: number of medals, total points, quantity and quality of athletes and teams, team and athletes management, support of authorities and spectators of faculties, management of event and competitions. The predictive power of these factors was 80.561 based on the total percentage of factor cumulative variance. According to Friedman test, the most important factors to rank the faculties participating in sport festival were “number of medals”, “quantity and quality of athletes and teams” and “total points”.

Keywords

ranking
sport festival
student sport
students
University of Tehran
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Sport Management Journal
Volume 12, Issue 2
Summer 2020
Pages 521-546

  • Receive Date 20 May 2019
  • Revise Date 14 May 2020
  • Accept Date 21 September 2019

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