Design and standardization of a progressively difficult educational test for football passing skills for first-year students in the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences

Abstract

Standards play a vital role in documenting the values ​​of new test results in the form of tables. They are one of the basic requirements that the standardization process aims for as a complement to standardizing test procedures, and contribute to knowing the current reality of the student. The degree of readiness and level as a result of practicing different exercises for sports activities, in addition to the possibility of adopting it for comparison with his group or similar groups, classification, prediction and selection. Developing the skill of handling the football in the educational field is an important matter for achieving distinguished performance among students. This skill requires a level of accuracy, speed and control, and the changes that occur in the educational preparation process require tests that are in harmony with these changes on the one hand, and the formation of new standards on the other hand. Accordingly, in the research problem, the researchers found a lack of models of educational tests for measuring the skill of handling in terms of the gradation of difficulty in performance for first-stage students. The aim of the research is to design and standardize an educational test of progressive difficulty for the skill of handling a football for first-year students in the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences. The research community was selected from first-year students for the academic year (2022-2023 AD) at the University of Baghdad. The number of students reached (260) students representing (9) academic departments, and the research sample consisted of (180) students. After obtaining the results and processing them statistically, the researchers reached two most important conclusions that an educational test of gradually increasing difficulty for the skill of handling a football in different directions and distances for first-year students in the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences.