The effectiveness of educational exercises using the analogical thinking strategy in teaching some basic handball skills to students.

Abstract

The study aimed to design effective educational exercises using the analogical thinking strategy to teach some basic handball skills, and to apply the proposed educational curriculum to the research sample, in addition to measuring the effectiveness of the exercises in developing the performance of some basic handball skills. As for the study hypotheses, the researcher assumed that there are statistically significant differences between the results of the pre- and post-measurements of the experimental group in learning some basic handball skills in favor of the post-measurement. There are also statistically significant differences between the results of the experimental group (which used the analogical thinking strategy) and the control group (which learned in the traditional way) in learning some basic handball skills in favor of the experimental group. The researcher used the experimental method in the style of two equivalent groups with pre- and post-tests to suit the nature of the research problem. The researcher chose the research community intentionally from the students of Maysan Vocational Secondary School for Sports Sciences in Maysan, for the academic year (2024-2025), numbering (86) students, as it consisted of three sections (A, B, C). The research sample was chosen from among the sections using the method  Randomization by lottery, as section (B) was chosen, which consisted of (30 students), and the sample was divided randomly into two groups, each group (15) students, one of them is experimental, on which the educational curriculum was applied according to the analogical thinking strategy, and the other is a control group, on which the regular educational units were applied, and it formed a percentage of (34.88%) of the research community. As for the most important conclusions of the study, it was proven that the educational exercises based on the analogical thinking strategy were effective in improving the learning of some basic skills in handball (handling, tapping, shooting), as the experimental group outperformed the control group with a statistically significant superiority.