Modern learning strategies and their impact on improving the efficiency of on-court performance (signals and mechanics) for novice basketball referees

Abstract

The current research seeks to learn and develop on-court competency (signals and mechanics) for novice basketball referees using modern strategies based on (visual learning, interactive feedback, simulation-based learning). This provides the learner with personalized learning that enables the novice referee to learn at his own pace and according to his own understanding of the concepts, through repeated viewing of videos and in his own way. It also uses technology as a reinforcement tool, as the program used here does not replace the coach personally or dispense with him in the teaching process; rather, it enhances the novice referee’s personal ability to discover his own errors through visual analysis and matching techniques, more than relying on external feedback provided by the coach, who identifies the error and alerts the novice referee to it. This is the essence of what modern learning methods and approaches emphasize. To apply the experimental method, the researcher identified the population as fourth-year students in the College of Physical Education and Sport Sciences / University of Babylon. The sample was selected using simple random sampling by lottery, with a total of (30) students, who were divided into the following samples: (12) students for each group (control and experimental), and (6) students for the exploration experiment sample of the research. The researcher implemented the educational program on the members of the experimental group, which used the proposed modern learning strategy, for a period of (4–6) weeks. By applying the experimental method, the researcher obtained, analyzed, and discussed the results of both groups to achieve the hypotheses of his current research.