Al-Rafidain Journal for Sports Sciences (RJSS)

Abstract

Abstract:
The research aims at getting acquainted with the effect of using cooperative learning according to the teaching strategy of same-age students in teaching some of the basic skills in football. The research was conducted on a sample of first-year students in College of Physical Education, University of Sallah Al- Deen. The research included two groups: an experimental group taught by using the cooperative manner and a control group taught by using the traditional one. The number of each group was a (12) student. As for research items, they included
trapping, dribbling and control in football. The researcher conducted equivalence between the two groups in regard to the number of variants that could affect the study results. The researcher treated his data statistically throughout using T- test for both, the independent samples and correlated ones.
The researcher has reached to a number of conclusions, the most important one is the following: In acquiring skills such as trapping, dribbling and control in football, the experimental group, which was taught by using the cooperative learning manner exceeded the control group, which was taught by using the traditional one.
The researcher recommended that there should be a necessity of using the cooperative learning manner as it was proved to be better than the traditional one in teaching the skills of trapping, dribbling and control.