The Effect of Providing the Corrective and Imagery Feedback on Improving the Performance Accuracy for the Skills of Underhand Serve, Overhand Serve and Jump Serve in Volleyball

Abstract

The aim of the current study was to assess the effect of different types of feedback on developing serves’ skill in volleyball. The researcher used the experimental approach. The study sample consisted of the male students enrolling in the course of volleyball(1) in the second semester for the academic year 2015/2016 with a total of (24) students who were distributed to the experimental group and the corrective group with(12) students in each group . The study results showed that there are statistically significant differences between the pre and post tests for the skills of (under hand serving, overhand serving and jump serving) among the students of the experimental group which used the corrective feedback in favor of the post tests. There are statistically significant differences in the accuracy of performing the different serve skills between the pre and post test measurements in favor of the post tests for the corrective group that used the imagery feedback. There are statistically significant differences for the different test measurements regarding the measurements of the post test for the experimental and corrective groups in favor of the experimental group . The researcher recommended the necessity of using the types of feedback that are used in this study in order to raise the level of skilled performance among the students, particularly the corrective feedback when learning the skill of serving in volleyball.