ESCALA DE IDENTIFICACIÓN DEL POTENCIAL TALENTO MOTOR EN 1 EDUCACIÓN FÍSICA: VALIDACIÓN TRANSCULTURAL

Abstract

While a theoretical corpus begins to form on the definition of talent, identification and development, the application of these terms to Physical Education (PE) remains unclear and a complex task. Even though in recent years instruments for identifying motor talent have been emerging in PE classes, none of them have been developed for the Spanish context. Thus, in order to offer PE teachers a new educational resource, the main objective of this work has been to cross-culturally validate the identification instrument called Scale for Identification of Sport Potential to the Spanish context. A total of 11 experts participated in the cross-cultural validation. The result of the study showed an original instrument for PE teachers, called EIPOTAM in its acronym, whose purpose is to carry out processes to identify potential motor talent in their classes. The areas that the instrument evaluates are: sports learning capacity, work attitude capacity, interpersonal capacity, intellectual capacity, creative capacity and motor capacity. Finally, the need to use this scale in PE classes to begin identification processes is concluded, with the aim of starting an adequate talent development process also from the educational field. Future studies should analyze whether the EIPOTAM, cross-culturally validated in the Spanish context, complies with the same factorial structure as the original scale.