The effect of the divided task strategy on mental alertness and learning the skill of defending the volleyball court for female students

Abstract

The research aimed to identify the effect of the divided task strategy on mental alertness and learning the skill of defending the volleyball court for female students. The researcher used the experimental approach based on the design of two equal groups, and the main research sample consisted of (30) female students during the second semester of the academic year (2023). -2024) It was divided equally into two groups, one of which was control, studied using the usual method, and the other was experimental, studied using the divided-task strategy. The research tool was applied, which is a measure of mental alertness and tests of technical performance and accuracy for the skill of defending the court in volleyball. Complete research procedures were followed and then the results were extracted, which were processed using appropriate statistical means. In light of this, the research reached several conclusions, the most important of which were: The divided tasks strategy contributed in a positive way to increasing mental alertness and learning the skill of defending the court with volleyball, in addition to the emergence of a significant superiority for the experimental group that followed the divided tasks strategy over the control group in mental alertness and the skill of defending the court with volleyball. The research concluded with a number of recommendations. Among the most important are: It is necessary to adopt a strategy of divided tasks in the educational units for volleyball because of its role in developing mental alertness and learning the skill of defending the court, with the need to adopt a mental alertness scale prepared to measure this variable among female students on a regular and continuous basis.