The Effect of Skill Exercises According to the Analogical Thinking Strategy in Learning Some Types of Handball Shooting for First-Year Middle School Students

Abstract

The importance of the research comes from using the analogical thinking strategy in learning, which pushes the student to exert the greatest possible effort in learning the skills. The researchers noted that the research problem crystallizes in the presence of a weakness in the level of performance of the shooting skill and that the methods used do not achieve the desired benefit in activating the learning process for students when used, which made the educational process a traditional process. Therefore, the researchers decided to use skill exercises according to the analogical thinking strategy in learning the shooting skill with handball for first-year middle school students as an attempt to find an effective way for students to learn these skills in an appropriate manner. The researchers used the experimental method of designing two equivalent groups. The research sample consisted of first-year middle school students, numbering (40) students. After completing the field experiment, the researchers concluded that using the analogical thinking strategy had a significant impact on learning the skills under study for the experimental group. There was also an advantage in the effect of using analogical thinking and its effectiveness in educational units.