Effect of the driver model on reflective thinking and teaching some basic basketball skills to students

Abstract

The study aimed to prepare educational sessions according to the Driver model for some basic skills in basketball, to identify its impact on the study variables, the experimental approach was followed by designing the two equivalent groups with a pre- and post-test, the research sample represented by students of the first stage was selected in the Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, Ashur University College for the academic year 2022-2023, and the study variables were determined, which included the reflective thinking test, dribbling and passing skills, the educational sessions were applying over a 6 weeks period, by an educational session per week, after educational sessions application completing and conducting the post-test and statistical processes, The study came out with several conclusions, the most important of which is that both (the driver model and the method used) had a positive impact on the process of reflective thinking and learning some basic skills in basketball, that the process of building knowledge whenever it is good and depends on the development of higher mental abilities such as meditation, thinking, discussion and comparison of concepts whenever knowledge becomes good and optimal, as well as the superiority of the Driver model at the expense of the method used by the teacher in reflective thinking and learning basic skills in basketball.