Effect of an Educational Approach Using the Overlapping Waves Strategy on the Development of the Cognitive Achievement of Tennis Players

Abstract

Tennis is one of the important individual games that require coaches to raise the skill level of the players as well as the level of knowledge. The researcher's keenness and through his experience as a player and  a coach will find a way through this research to develop the cognitive side of tennis players. The researcher used the experimental method for its suitability to the nature and problem of the research. The results showed that the significance of the differences in the t-test for two independent samples between the two research groups in the cognitive achievement test. (2,02) while the value of (t) computed between the two groups came (4,772) at a degree of freedom (27) below the level of significance (0,05), which indicates the existence of a significant difference between them in favor of the experimental group. The emergence of a clear improvement in the development of cognitive achievement and for the experimental and control groups in the pre-tests and the post-tests, in favor of the post-test.  We conclude that the experimental group that learned according to the strategy of overlapping waves was superior to the control group that used the strategy used in the post-test in the development of the cognitive achievement of the players.