The Effect of Exercise Variations in Improving Students’ Volleyball Forearm Pass Ability

Abstract

This research was conducted due to the students low ability in volleyball forearm pass technique at the Physical Education and Recreation Study Program. Therefore, many students had to repeat the test in the midterm and final semester exams. The research aims to determine the effect of exercise variations in improving the volleyball forearm pass ability by the students at the Physical Education and Recreation Study Program. Furthermore, an experiment with a one group pretest-postest design was used. The population consists of 150 students that participated in the volleyball courses in the semester from January - June 2020. The samples were taken using probability sampling techniques from 10% of the total population of 15 people. Data collection was carried a test of forearm pass skills, and the volleyball test from Brady. The data analysis technique was performed using the t-test over the assumed prerequisite test for data normality. The expected technological readiness in this study was TKT 3 using variation exercise methods to improve the students' skills in the forearm strike technique. The results showed that there was a significant influene between the exercise variations on the ability of the volleyball forearm pass technique with tcount = 8.52 = ttable = 2.14.