Investigating the Effects of Covod-19 Outbreak on ‎Educational and Research ‎Processes in Sports

The spread of the corona virus has so far affected education and research in sport. The aim of this ‎study was to investigating the effects of Covod-19 outbreak on Educational and research ‎processes in sports.‎‏ ‏The present study is an applied research in terms of nature and from the ‎aspect of data analysis method is descriptive-exploratory that data collection was done in the ‎field. The statistical population included an unlimited number of all sports directors, sports ‎teachers and professors, sports coaches, sports producers, sports service providers, sports referees, ‎athletes, sports equipment sellers and sports media activists in Iran, and 600 samples answered a ‎questionnaire of 20 research questions. In order to evaluate the reliability of internal consistency ‎and its stability, Cronbach's alpha index was used in a preliminary study that the alpha value for ‎the whole questionnaire was 0.972. Data analysis was performed using descriptive and inferential ‎statistics with the help of SPSS and AMOS software.‎‏ ‏Exploratory factor analysis showed that ‎education and research in sport were affected by COVID-19. This finding can help the relevant ‎institutions and organizations in the country to improve the situation of education and research in ‎sports in the post-Corona era‎.‎