Building a cognitive test using an electronic program designed and codifying it on the referees of the Iraqi Professional Basketball League

Abstract

Basketball is a team sport that has begun to develop significantly both locally and globally. Refereeing is the process of assessing situations and events based on a set of rules that must be relied upon. It is an essential process to ensure the organization of matches and the effective application of rules to make fair decisions in matches. The objectives of the research were: preparing cognitive test cases for Iraqi Professional Basketball League referees. And building an electronic test for cognitive test cases for Iraqi Professional Basketball League referees. To standardize the results of the electronic cognitive test for the referees of the Iraqi Professional Basketball League, the descriptive approach was used in its survey style to suit the nature of the research. The research sample was the referees of the Iraqi Professional Basketball League for the season (2024/2025). The cognitive states were identified and the electronic test was designed. After presenting, analyzing and discussing the data, it was concluded that the cognitive test proved its validity in measuring the cognitive aspects of basketball referees by distributing it moderately across the building sample and its ability to distinguish between the achievement of sample members with high and low levels, in addition to achieving high coefficients of validity, reliability and objectivity. The standardization sample enjoys a level of satisfaction and acceptance through the positive levels it showed, and the research sample was more than (40%) above the acceptance line. Therefore, the researchers recommend adopting the cognitive test in the process of continuous evaluation of referees, in addition to adopting the criteria reached by the research in the evaluation and selection process, and the continuous updating (amendment) of the criteria according to scientific knowledge and over the years.