Author name:
حـردان عـزيـز سـلـمان
Supervisor name:
مها محمد صالح الانصاري
Abstract:
This dissertation includes the following five chapters Chapter One : Introduction and The Research Significance Through this chapter, the researcher addresses the importance and greater role played by handball goalkeeper, since he is considered the most significant actor in the team on two levels of attacking and defensive positions as well as his effect on the team performance. In addition, the researcher deals with the aspect of game improvement and level of team performance, and particularly the defensive position, wherein the requirements for the goalkeeper become quite various, diversified and rapidly changeable with certain degree of difficulty. Some of these requirements are tests and measurement, as tests are considered the essential part in developing plan of physical, skillful and arranging levels of handball goalkeeper. The process of constructing new tests for measuring the basic skills in handball game becomes absolutely necessary to be carried out and to be worked on it along the teaching process. Using the tests proves its validity by scientific studies and field experiments which form the basics of any genuine effort. Some levels and standards for these tests facilitate the process of marking and drawing comparisons and specifically in terms of battery tests. The research significance lies, as mentioned above, in the importance of basic skills for handball goalkeeper through playing this game in athletic competitions, in which it seems necessary to provide all suitable instruments of measurement in order to evaluate and recognize the goalkeeper's relative position in comparison to his counterparts by building unified tests , including the most important basic skills in terms of some biomechanical variables and relative angles , in addition to the standard which fits the nature of society. The Research Problem The increasing attention paid recently to handball goalkeepers and designing training curriculum for them is merely to determine accurately their quantitative capacities and basic, physical and dynamic skills. Such matter demands certain tests of some specific conditions and descriptions constructed according to scientific basics. The researcher is a good observer of this important position in this game through his role as the goalkeeper of Iraqi Handball Olympic Team and coach for goalkeepers of El - Jaish Sports Team. This facilities the process though with some shortcomings in terms of acquiring the basic skills, such matter needs to be fulfilled. Determining the relative position of goalkeeper in comparison to his peers in this game calls for unifying these tests by an integrated referential framework in form of tests battery , through which it can be made easy to all staff members in this field according to most updated methods by utilizing some mechanical variables and relative angles for goalkeepers. The Research Aims The research aims at the following goals : - 1 - Designing skill tests in terms of some biomechanical variables and relative angles for handball goalkeepers for first and excellent series of clubs. 2 - Rationing the skill tests in terms of some biomechanical variables and relative angles for , Determining the level of standard degrees for all units of skill tests in terms of biomechanical variables and relative angles for handball goalkeepers as members of research sample. 3 - Identifying the relationship among some basic skills and relative angles and some biomechanical variables for the handball goalkeepers for both elite and first class cup. The Research Hypotheses : There is on statistical singifgant differences among some basic skills with some biomechanical variables of advanced handball goalkeepers. The Research Disciplines 1 - The human discipline : Goalkeepers of first class culp of handball for athletic season of 2013 - 2014 2 - The spatial discipline : all sport halls of parcipating teams in the first class championship as following (The hall of Al - Qassim Team, Al Kufah team hall , Al Karkh team hall , Wissam Almajd team hall, Al - Saydiya young team hall , Naft Al - Janoob team hall, Karbla team hall ,Diyala team hall and hall of The Ministry of Sports and Youth in Maysan) Chapter Two (Theoretical Framework and Similar Studies) Through this chapter, the researcher deals with group of theoretical studies of certain correlation to the biomechanical test and measurement (tests, tests significance , tests classification, steps of tests preparation and construction, the scientific basics for these tests, dynamic skill , methods of skill tests in athletic games, the concept of dynamic analysis , angular momentum, an angular kinetic energy , the relative angles , the handball goalkeeper). In addition , the researcher addresses some previous similar studies submitted by other researchers like (Abdul Wehab Ghazi Humoodi , Hussein Ali hasan) . Chapter Three ( The Research Methodology and Field Procedures) In this chapter, Descriptive Survey Method was utilized by researcher in order to determine the skill tests in the light of previous studies after being verified by specific experts , and some basic skills of handball goalkeepers were identified as well. The research community was constituted by goalkeepers from Premier and First Division Leagues of Handball Game in Iraq for sports season of 2014 - 2015 who were 93 goalkeepers. The research sample was chosen deliberately, which includes 93 goalkeepers representing First Division League and Iraqi Elite Leagues Premier Division. After the major experiment was concluded, the researcher utilized the following statistic instruments ( Mean, Standard Deviation , Percentage , Pearson's correlation coefficient , Spearman's rank correlation coefficient , Range, Skewing factor , T test for independent, uncorrelated samples , Factor Analysis, Standard Scores) . Chapter Four (Results, Analysis and Discussion) This chapter involves the results, analysis and discussion , wherein the results were figured out by using statistic instruments. These outcomes were processed and analyzed by presenting them in tables and were discussed in scientific approach by adopting certain scientific references. Chapter Five (Conclusions and Recommendations) Through this study, the researcher summed up some of the most important concluding remarks as follows : - 1 - The factorial analysis of intercorrelation matrix for the skills tests carried out by handball goalkeepers enabled the researcher to figure out four factors , three of which showed their importance in the light of the conditions of factors admissions. 2 - The study determined and nominated the elicited tests by following names ( skills tests of handball goalkeepers of Iraq Elite and First division Leagues, which suit the environment in Iraq. 3 - This dissertation determined the standards ( standard degree which is consecutively modified ) for elicited tests. The recommendations include the following : 1 - The concluded tests should be distributed to coaches of handball goalkeepers of Elite and First division Leagues in Iraq in order to be applied and make use of its items specifically in choosing the sample goalkeepers. 2 - The elicited skill tests should be utilized and applied by handball goalkeepers in order to find out the skills capability. 3 - The standards reached at in processes of evaluation and classification should be adopted and some training programs should be designed on the bases of concluded skills tests. 4 - Similar studies and investigations on different age categories should be made for instance the young players.
