Impact Of A Competitive Learning Strategy To Learn Some Basic Offensive Basketball Skills For Middle School Students

Abstract

This study seeks to achieve a set of scientific and practical objectives that contribute to developing our understanding of process of learning Sports skills to reveal extent to which competitive learning strategy affects improvement of basic offensive basketball skills performance among middle school students. Measuring differences in improvement rates between experimental group that uses competition-based learning strategy and control group that follows traditional learning methods. Identify which offensive skills shooting, dribbling, passing are most affected by application of this strategy. The researcher adopted experimental method by designing two equivalent groups experimental and control with pre- and post-testing, in order to suit nature of problem and its objectives. Research community was defined as middle school students for academic year 2025-2026, totaling 127 students from three sections. The main experimental sample was selected randomly using a simple lottery method, consisting of 40 students from section (A), who were divided into two equal groups: experimental 15 students and control 15 students, representing 31.5% of  research community, and a pilot experimental sample consisting of 10 students, representing 7.9% of  total research community. Based on results of pre- and post-tests for two research groups and comparing them with significance level of 0.05, that all test values were greater than  significance level, and this indicates significance of differences between pre- and post-tests for two research groups.