Construção e validação do instrumento de avaliação técnico-tático através de jogos reduzidos para o rugby

Abstract

Performance analysis has been used by rugby coaches to evaluate their teams, considering that the performance of an athlete or a team is related to physical, technical and tactical skills. To assist in the process of analyzing game performance and training, some technical-tactical assessment instruments are used in different team sports. With regard to rugby, some studies on the performance of teams are found, however they lack predefined observation indicators, in addition to not presenting clarifications and standard definitions of the skills evaluated in the scientific scope. In view of this, the present study aims to build and validate a technical-tactical assessment instrument for rugby (IATTRu), through small-sided game situations. The investigation had an instrumental character, which consisted of building the instrument's observation indicators and verifying its clarity of language, its practical relevance and its theoretical relevance (content validation). The individual actions that make up the IATTRu are: pass, offload, reception, duel and tackle. The technical-tactical components included in the instrument are: decision making, efficiency and effectiveness. The validation process was carried out through the evaluation of the expert committee composed of eight rugby coaches, from different regions of Brazil, who were invited by convenience for the study to present a plurality of participants. The evaluation was carried out individually by digital means, using an Excel spreadsheet. Data were collected, organized in a single worksheet and the content validation of the instrument was verified through the Content Validity Coefficient (CVC). The results showed that the overall CVC of the IATTRu reached the value of CVC = 0.89, still in the analysis of all individual actions and the technical-tactical performance components reached the value of CVC > 0.80, reaching the cut-off point necessary for validation of the instrument content. Therefore, the IATTRu was composed of 39 observation indicators that evaluate individual actions considering the technical-tactical performance components for rugby. In short, the study pointed out that the IATTRu is a valid and applicable instrument, which assesses the level of individual technical-tactical performance through rugby small-sided games.