Date of Award
8-14-2020
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Educational Leadership, Ed.D.
First Advisor
Amany Saleh
Committee Members
Amanda Wheeler; Brian Church; Eric Scudamore; Veronika Pribyslavska
Call Number
LD 251 .A566d 2020 W52
Abstract
As early as 1999, state athletic organizations began to report concerns about possible officiating shortages for high school sports. According to the literature, this concern has grown over the past 20 years. Much of the empirical data was missing on this phenomenon until NASO (National Association of Sports Officials) published comprehensive survey results in 2017 from 17,486 officials across the nation. It confirmed that officials were a graying population that considered the decline of contest climates at sporting events as a major contributor to officials deciding to quit. Due to this insight, this study aimed to examine the role most responsible for managing contests and contest climates in public schools in Missouri—the role of the school administrator on duty. This study measured school administrators’ and officials’ perceptions concerning the existing contest climates. It then measured the school administrators' sense of duty to manage contest climates alongside the officials’ perceptions of how well school administrators performed those duties. This study found that both administrators and officials saw a negative contest climate that was getting worse due to the behaviors of all participants. It also found that school administrators felt a strong sense of duty across all contest climate management tasks. Lastly, this study found that officials significantly perceived administrators as underperforming those tasks. These findings support a shift in strategy concerning the solutions to officiating shortages. This study significantly supports adopting strategies that address contest climate problems through better on-site management by school administrators.
Rights Management
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
White, Christopher Brian, "The Officiating Shortage: Examining The Administrator’s Role in Addressing Basketball Contest Climates in the State of Missouri" (2020). Student Theses and Dissertations. 390.
https://arch.astate.edu/all-etd/390
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