The urgency of sports talent instruments: Perspectives of early childhood teachers in Indonesia

Currently, Indonesia is in need of regeneration of early age athletes to improve sports achievement, so early childhood teachers have an important role in identifying sports talent in early childhood. In order to identify sports talent in early childhood, they need a valid and reliable instrument. However, before a sports talent instrument for early childhood can be developed, it is necessary to first determine early childhood teachers' responses to an instrument. This study aims to determine the teacher's perspective on sports talent instruments in early childhood which has never existed so far. The survey used a questionnaire consisting of three dimensions: cognitive response (8 items), affective response (8 items), and conative response (7 items). Validity ranged from 0.220 to 0.693 and the reliability was r = 0.680 to 0.838. This quantitative data was then analysed using descriptive statistics using SPSS Version 23. The results showed that the cognitive response of early childhood education teachers about sports talent instruments for early childhood was 76.5%, the affective response was 81.2%, the conative response was 69.2%. This shows that early childhood teachers are happy to welcome sports talent instruments for early childhood, even though they feel they lack knowledge and experience related to motor activities. The results also showed each response's dimension was significantly correlated, namely: cognitive to affective with F=0.741, p