A study on volleyball skills between indigenous and non-indigenous basic-level girl students in Likhu Rural Municipality

Abstract

A study was conducted on the title ‘A study on volleyball skills between indigenous & non-indigenous basic level girls’ students in Likhu Rural Municipality”.The main objective of this study was to measure & compare the volleyball skills between indigenous and non-indigenous basic-level girl students in Likhu Rural Municipality. For the fulfillment of thesis objectives, the researcher applied comparative cum descriptive type of research design with in quantitative nature and which attempted to compare the volleyball skill between the indigenous and non-indigenous basic level girl students. The study was based on purposive cum simple random sampling method were applied to select the respondents were applied to select the respondents. Six basic schools were selected by using a purposive sampling method and a random sampling method was applied to select the respondent students. The sample size was limited to 120 students. Sixty indigenous and sixty non-indigenous girls were selected from a Secondary level school. The researcher used a readymade test battery of a volleyball skill test, which was developed by “Russell Lange”. It had to volleyball skill test item they are serving and repeated the volleyball test as the main tools for data collection. All the collected raw data were converted into standard score with the help of simple statistical techniques as mean, S.D, C.V, and Z-test were used in this study. While observing the result, the indigenous girl student found slightly highly better in serving and repeated volley test than non-indigenous basic level girl students. The researcher applied a z-test to find out the significant difference between the indigenous and non-indigenous basic level girl students in the tested volleyball skills. After conducting the z-test result found not significant difference in the serving and repeated volley test of indigenous and non-indigenous basic level among girl students at a 0.05 level of degree of freedom of this skills in Likhu Rural Municipality of Nuwakot district. In this study, the researcher found that the girls' students were somewhat weak in the volleyball game, but those schools‟ students have the chance to develop good sportsmanship in regular useful for sports facilities, sport teacher, teaching, coaching and practices inter school competition and planners to develop skills for students on this game.