Efficacy of parental use of a tagging procedure to enhance their child's sports performance training
Degree Name
Master of Science
Department or Program
Behavior Analysis and Therapy
Advisor
Rehfeldt, Ruth Anne
Abstract
Youth sports have become increasingly popular and competitive, resulting in parents seeking out coaching and training facilities that can improve their children’s sports performance. Tagging offers a promising way to enhance sports training by incorporating immediate audible feedback successfully used in the field of Behavior Analysis that was once reserved only for professional athletes. However, it is unclear whether parents can effectively use a tagging procedure when provided with a breakdown of the specific steps to skills needed (e.g. task analysis) to enhance their child’s training received at a paid training facility. The purpose of this study was to test the efficacy of parents using a tagging procedure to enhance baseball swing mechanics training of youth baseball players.