Coaching Evaluation Form

Session Evaluation

• What were the primary objectives of the session?

• Why were these primary objectives chosen?

• Were the primary objectives of the session achieved?

• If so, what do you believe to be the predominant factor that aided their
achievement?

• If not, what got you as a coach, the athletes or the session overall off track?

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• Where did the session take place? (Indoors, outdoors, be as specific as possible, the
environment can play a powerful role in dictating outcomes.)

• What type of athletes or individuals were involved in the session? (Age, sport, level
of previous training experience, etc.)

• What time of day did the session take place? If there were multiple session, please
list both times.

• How long was the session? Was this the intended length?

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Athlete Evaluation

• How would you describe the attitude of athletes before, during and after the session?

• What made you describe their attitudes this way? What did you notice specifically
about their behavior or level of engagement prior to, during or after the session?

• Overall, how would you rank the overall effort or performance of the athletes
involved in the session? (Please rank 1-10 with 10 being indicative of tremendous
effort, and 1 being indicative of an extremely poor effort.)

• As a coach, what objective and subjective methods do you and/or your staff use to
gauge effort, intent or engagement during a session?

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• Why have you chosen these methods in particular?

• What types of potential distractions came up during the session (if any)? How did
you prevent them from becoming a larger issue?

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Coach Evaluation

• As a coach, how would you describe your own attitude or general affect before,
during and after leading the session?

• What event or series of events do you believe led to you being in this particular mood
state at these times, and how do you believe it affected your performance (if at all)?

• Using a 1-10 scale, with 10 being extremely effective, and 1 being not effective at all,
how would you rate your performance as a coach during this session?

• Why did you give yourself this score?

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• In your opinion, how do you believe the effectiveness of a coach can best be assessed
over both the short-term (session to session), and the long-term (year to year)?

• What objective and subjective ways do you currently evaluate yourself or your staff
as it pertains specifically to coaching effectiveness?

• Why have you chosen these methods?

• If you do not currently evaluate yourself or your staff, please state why not.

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• Describe the predominant coaching style that you used during the session. Why did
you believe this approach was appropriate?

• While coaching, which method(s) of instruction did you predominantly rely upon?

• Verbal instruction (*augmented feedback*, vocal tone alterations, asking

questions, internal/external cues, jokes, etc.)

• Non-verbal feedback (listening, demonstration, body language, gesturing,

eye-contact, *video feedback*, blowing a whistle, tactile feedback, etc.)

• Other: (Please list)

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• Other: (Please list)

*Note that video feedback can serve as a form of augmented feedback as well. Augmented feedback as a whole provides
feedback that can help facilitate skill erudition or learning. Of course, it is also possible to give both visual and verbal
instruction at the same time, but for the purposes of this question, we are asking you to identify your primary “go-to”
method.

• Why do you believe that you choose to predominantly rely upon this method in par-
ticular?

• How do you believe the athletes taking part in this session want/wanted to be
coached?

• What led you to give this answer?

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