Using introductory games to teach handball skills and their impact on technical performance and social adjustment among fifth-grade primary school students

Abstract

The aim of this research is to design a program that includes introductory games for the game of handball and to identify the impact of this program in developing some of the main skills of the game of handball and social adjustment among fifth-grade primary school students. For this purpose, the experimental method was used to suit this study, as the research sample was chosen intentionally from students. The fifth grade of primary school, aged (10-12) years, at Al-Adnaniyah School for Boys in the Nineveh Governorate Center for the academic year (2022-2022), as its number reached (110) students, which were distributed into two groups by lottery, and each group after exclusion included (28) students, One of them was an experimental group, which complied with (the introductory games program), and the other was a control group, which worked in the usual manner, as the number of members of the sample after exclusion reached (56) students. As for the experimental design, it is the design of the experimental group, which includes an experimental group, another control group, and a post-test on the dependent variables (performance). skills, and social adjustment). Equality was conducted between the two research groups in a number of physical tests, which confirmed that there were no significant differences between the students of the two groups. The introductory games program contains six educational lessons, with a time of (40) minutes for each lesson and an average of two lessons per week. Two tools were applied. The research (post-skill tests and the social adjustment scale), and the appropriate statistical package (SPSS) was used for statistical analysis, and the results showed that the students of the experimental group who were taught according to the introductory games program outperformed the students of the control group who were taught according to the method used in handball skills and the social adjustment measure.