DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2015.v03i06.014

Pages: 1174-1177

The evaluation of coaching performance is attempted through the description of ideal behaviours and characteristics, observation tools, theoretical models and structured interviews. While coaching evaluation is considered to be inefficient and the description of coaching procedure unexplored, the effect of the social environment on the coaching process and the coaching performance is underpinned. The coach is recognised as part of a social and sports environment which affect, shape and force the coach to readjust theoretical, technical and tactical decisions and practices. Thirty one environmental criteria, internal or external to the team, which seem to have a direct or indirect effect on the coaching process have been recorded in the literature review. Further research could develop an environmental factors’ model and explore the possible relation, moderation or mediation of the environmental factors with the existing evaluation models of coaching performance.