The effect of an educational programme based on brain control patterns on the acquisition of volleyball skills: passing from above and passing from below (reception).

Abstract

This study aims to determine the extent to which the proposed educational programme based on brain control patterns affects the acquisition of two volleyball skills — passing from above and passing from below (reception) — among second-year undergraduate students (L3). 

The study sample consisted of 27 male students enrolled in the second year of the Bachelor’s degree in Elite Sports Training in the field of Science and Techniques of Physical and Sports Activities at Boumerdès University. The educational programme was implemented alongside a set of tests and measurements, including: Anthropometric measurements and a brain control assessment. 

The brain control assessment relied on the Torrance scale (1988). In addition, skill-specific volleyball tests were administered: The test of passing from above and the test of passing from below (reception). 

After statistical processing, the results showed that there were statistically significant differences in learning both passing from above and passing from below between the pre-test and post-test for participants with the right pattern and those with the left pattern, at significance levels of P ≤ 0.01 and P ≤ 0.001, respectively. This improvement is attributed to the effective and positive impact of the proposed educational programme on the study participants. 

However, the results also indicated that there were no statistically significant differences in post-test scores between participants with the right pattern and those with the left pattern. This confirms that the effect of the educational programme does not differ according to the brain control pattern. This may be because, despite differences in physiological characteristics and information-processing functions, the two brain patterns are complementary and remain interconnected.