The Impact of Using Mind Maps Strategy on Students’ Knowledge Acquisition and their Trends Development towards Teaching Methods Course at the College of Physical Education

Abstract :

The current study aims at revealing:

• The impact of using mind maps strategy and the traditional method (lectures) on students’ knowledge acquisition in physical education teaching methods course.
• The impact of using mind maps strategy and the traditional method (lectures) on the psychological trend towards physical education teaching methods course.
• The differences in the post test between the experimental group adopting mind methods strategy and the control group adopting the traditional method (lecture) in the trend towards physical education teaching methods.Experimental approach is used for it is appropriate with the study. The study sample consisted of (50) third year students at the College of Physical Education/ University of Salahaldeen and were divided into two groups, the first experimental group and the second control group. The experimental group adopted mind maps strategy while the control group adopted the traditional method (lecture). Equivalence of both groups variables (age, intelligence, parents academic qualifications, teaching methods grade, trend towards teaching methods) between the two groups were made. The researcher has prepared a measure for assessing psychological trend towards physical education teaching methods.

The study sums up with the following:

• Adopting mind maps strategy is more effective in increasing students’ knowledge acquisition for the experimental group compared with the control group that adopted the traditional method (lecture) in physical education teaching methods.
• Adopting mind maps strategy requires more time, effort and skills by the teacher and the students than using the traditional methods.
• Adopting mind maps strategy and the traditional method (lecture) has a positive impact in trend towards physical education teaching methods.
• Adopting mind maps strategy by the experimental group is better than the control group that adopted the traditional method (lecture) as related to developing psychological trend towards physical education teaching methods.

Keywords: Mind maps, knowledge acquisition, trends development, physical education teaching methods.