Creative thinking and its relationship to cognitive and skill achievement in Volleyball among second-year students

الملخص

Researchers in the education field, physical education and sports sciences have been interested in the subject of creative thinking and its applications as it is one of the important mental activities that influence the athlete’s personality and determine his behavior in the environment in which he lives, with the belief that there is a clear impact of individual differences between individuals in the nature of the mental abilities that distinguish them from each other. The other. Since the Volleyball event is one of the important sporting events that attracts a lot of attention among students in colleges of physical education, and given the student’s need to understand the nature of skill and cognitive performance through the basic vocabulary of the Volleyball subject, the importance of the research lies in how to achieve the best learning process from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Therefore, measuring creative thinking and knowing the extent of its relationship to cognitive and skill achievement. The problem of the research lies in the lack of a test for cognitive achievement in the subject of Volleyball. The need arose to work on building a test for this purpose through the use of precise scientific methods in order to address the basic research problem, And skills in Volleyball. The aim of the study is to identify the relationship between creative thinking and cognitive and skill achievement in Volleyball among second-year students at the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences - Kirkuk University.

The hypothesis of the study is that there is no statistically significant relationship between creative thinking and cognitive and skill achievement in Volleyball among second-year students. The researchers used the experimental method, and the sample was randomly selected from second-year students. Through the results, the researchers reached the following conclusions:

1. There is a relationship between creative thinking and cognitive achievement in Volleyball.

2.The students’ interest in cognitive achievement was better than their interest in skill achievement in Volleyball.

The researchers recommended:

1.Emphasizing the importance of developing creative thinking in training in physical education colleges in Qatar, especially developing the cognitive and mental aspects of students.

1. Working to provide the appropriate psychological environment for students that contributes to creating opportunities for creativity and creative thinking for them in a manner consistent with the educational goals pursued by the educational curricula in Iraqi universities.