Review of relative age effects and potential ways to reduce them in sport and education

Review of relative age effects and potential ways to reduce them in sport and education

Differences on chronological age within a peer/age group are known as Relative Age, and its consecuences as Relative Age Effec (RAE). This article is a review of the most relevant publications in both the educative and sportive contexts. The decision of reviewing both contexts in the same article is...

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Main Author: David Gutiérrez Díaz del Campo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: FEADEF 2013-01-01
Series:Retos: Nuevas Tendencias en Educación Física, Deportes y Recreación
Subjects:
relative age effect
season-of-birth bias
selection processes
talent identification
Online Access:http://www.retos.org/numero_23/51-63.pdf
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spelling doaj-2a6b12d042e24533b709e9c2a714f72b2020-11-24T22:41:39ZengFEADEFRetos: Nuevas Tendencias en Educación Física, Deportes y Recreación1579-17261988-20412013-01-0101235163Review of relative age effects and potential ways to reduce them in sport and educationDavid Gutiérrez Díaz del CampoDifferences on chronological age within a peer/age group are known as Relative Age, and its consecuences as Relative Age Effec (RAE). This article is a review of the most relevant publications in both the educative and sportive contexts. The decision of reviewing both contexts in the same article is based on the existence of many points in common between them. Furthermore when research is made on youth sport, all the participants are at the same time in the educational system. The hypothesis of the origin of RAE and possible solutions are discussed and analysed at the end of the paper. Besides the objective of compiling and analyse what literature says about RAE, this article has the aim of raisig awareness about this problem and wish of intervention in educators and sportive managers.http://www.retos.org/numero_23/51-63.pdfrelative age effectseason-of-birth biasselection processestalent identification
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Review of relative age effects and potential ways to reduce them in sport and education
Retos: Nuevas Tendencias en Educación Física, Deportes y Recreación
relative age effect
season-of-birth bias
selection processes
talent identification
author_facet David Gutiérrez Díaz del Campo
author_sort David Gutiérrez Díaz del Campo
title Review of relative age effects and potential ways to reduce them in sport and education
title_short Review of relative age effects and potential ways to reduce them in sport and education
title_full Review of relative age effects and potential ways to reduce them in sport and education
title_fullStr Review of relative age effects and potential ways to reduce them in sport and education
title_full_unstemmed Review of relative age effects and potential ways to reduce them in sport and education
title_sort review of relative age effects and potential ways to reduce them in sport and education
publisher FEADEF
series Retos: Nuevas Tendencias en Educación Física, Deportes y Recreación
issn 1579-1726
1988-2041
publishDate 2013-01-01
description Differences on chronological age within a peer/age group are known as Relative Age, and its consecuences as Relative Age Effec (RAE). This article is a review of the most relevant publications in both the educative and sportive contexts. The decision of reviewing both contexts in the same article is based on the existence of many points in common between them. Furthermore when research is made on youth sport, all the participants are at the same time in the educational system. The hypothesis of the origin of RAE and possible solutions are discussed and analysed at the end of the paper. Besides the objective of compiling and analyse what literature says about RAE, this article has the aim of raisig awareness about this problem and wish of intervention in educators and sportive managers.
topic relative age effect
season-of-birth bias
selection processes
talent identification
url http://www.retos.org/numero_23/51-63.pdf
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