The effect of exercises enhanced with auditory and visual stimuli on developing certain offensive basketball skills

Abstract

The importance of this research lies in identifying the effect of exercises enhanced with auditory and visual stimuli on developing some offensive basketball skills. The research problem arose from the researcher's observations while teaching physical education, and based on her field experience in basketball, as well as personal interviews with a number of specialized teachers. A weakness was observed in the technical performance level of some basic basketball skills, especially offensive skills, among students. This weakness is attributed to the reliance on traditional teaching units that lack diversity in educational exercises. Therefore, the need arose to prepare exercises enhanced with auditory and visual stimuli. The researcher used the experimental method with a two-group equivalent design (control and experimental ( The research population consisted of first-year students at the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, University of Wasit, during the academic year 2025-2026. The student body comprised 177 students distributed across six sections (A, B, C, D, E, and F), selected using simple random sampling. Two sections (A and C) were chosen, each with 28 students. After implementing the educational program based on auditory and visual stimuli, and conducting pre- and post-tests, the results were analyzed. The conclusions reached showed that the experimental group outperformed the control group. Recommendations were made, the most important of which was emphasizing the use of exercises enhanced with auditory and visual stimuli. These exercises had a positive and highly effective impact on developing certain offensive basketball skills compared to traditional exercises.