Construction of a basketball official's test presented by videotape
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- William Ivan Turnbull (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Gail Hennis
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to construct an objective basketball official's test through the medium of television. Seventy-one illustrated situations of basketball play were edited from twelve hours of women's college games. Seventy-one questions and separate answer sheets were constructed to accompany the illustrated situations on videotape. The questions were true-false and multiple choice with contingent parts related to the response to the first section of each question. All questions were based on the Division for Girls and Women's Sports Basketball Guide, 1973-1974 (1973). The test was administered to forty-four subjects with a varying knowledge of and experience in basketball officiating. The knowledge and experience ranged from students in a basketball officiating class to ten nationally rated officials. Objectivity of each illustrated situation was established by six or more of eight national officials, acting as judges, agreeing upon the correct response. An item analysis was computed by the Testan-Item analysis program on the first choice of each question and the question as a whole. Fourteen questions were rejected due to insufficient objectivity and, after the two item analyses, fifteen additional questions were rejected on the basis of poor discrimination. The reliability of the revised t>;st found by the Kuder-Richardson formula, was 0.7899.
Construction of a basketball official's test presented by videotape
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- Language: English
- Date: 1974