The influence of a constructivist model for teaching tactics in basketball on the effectiveness of the game during the competition

Abstract

The performance in basketball comes determined not only for the capacity of execution of the participants but for the aptitude to overcome the adversary who generates a changeable environment, where the player must be analyzing and deciding constant the actions to obtain to score. The aim of this study was to analyze if with a program of training for the tactics, based on a model constructivism , it is possible to manage to improve the performance of a male basketball team formed by 10 players seniors. For it there were in use as dependent variables the efficacy of positional attacks and the effectiveness of tactical media, understood as the ability to achieve benefits of space with ball player.. The data Collection of information was realized by means of methodology observational thanks to a before validated instrument. A design was in use pretest-postest without group control. The results showed that an improvement existed in the efficiency of the assaults posicicionales with very significant differences, happening from 28,6 % of efficiency in the pretest to 67,5 % in the postest.The same results repeated themselves with the efficiency of the tactical means, this time with highly significant differences, happening from an efficiency of 29,5 % in the pretest to one from 64,9 % in the postest. The principal conclusion of the study is that a program of training for the education of the collective tactics based on a model constructivist has a positive influence in the performance of a basketball team.

Keywords

• tactics
• education
• constructivism
• efficiency