CONSTRUCTION OF PLAYING ABILITY IN HOCKEY

Among different games and sports, field Hockey is a fast outdoor game. It is an accepted fact that Hockey is one of the most popular participation games around the world. Day by day the nature of the game changes its structure. The purpose of this study was to construct a skill test battery in Hockey. To achieve this purpose initially thirteen skill tests were designed by the investigators. A pilot study was conducted with thirty subjects, after analyzing the various factors, seven test items were finalised by keen observation and consultation with the experts. The seven skill test items were administered to ninety six college level Hockey players from affiliated colleges of Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, whose age ranged from 18 to 25 years. To find out the validity simple correlation was employed. Further stepwise multiple regressions were used for validating the test battery and to arrive the final test battery. The selected seven skill test items have shown sufficient reliability, objectivity and validity but only the following three test items namely Straight Hit, Flick and Speed dodge were part of the final test battery.