Abstract:
Among different games and sports, field Hockey is one of the fast outdoor game. It is an accepted fact that Hockey is one of the most popular participation sports around the world. Day by day the nature of the game changes its structure. The purpose of this study was to construct a skill test battery in Hockey. To achieve this purpose initially thirteen skill tests were designed by the investigators. A pilot study was conducted with thirty subjects, after analyzing the various factors, seven test items were finalised by keen observation and consultation with the experts. The seven skill test items were administered to ninety six college level Hockey players from Tirunelveli region and their age ranged from 14 to 16 years. To find out the validity simple correlation was employed. Further stepwise multiple regressions were used for validating the test battery and to arrive the final test battery. The selected seven skill test items have shown sufficient reliability, objectivity and validity but only the following three test items namely Straight Drive Hit, Scoop for distance and Speed right dodge were part of the final test battery.
Author Name : Dr.S.Arumugam, Dr.P.Rajkumar & Dr.G.Vigneshwaran
Keywords: Construction, Objectivity, Reliability, Validity and Hockey.
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