A comparative study of cooperative and traditional teaching methods in teaching volleyball lesson

This research, which is intended for the achievements in the field of lower learning in physical education lesson sports knowledge and skills, aims at investigating and comparing the effects of cooperative learning and traditional teaching models on the learning domains (cognitive and psychological) of students, which are used in the teaching of some subjects in the volleyball game. The sample of the research includes 54 students consisting of 29 males and 25 females aged between 14 and 15 years studied at Van Sports School in 2015-2016. In the study, "Volleyball Lesson Cognitive Domain Test" and "Volleyball Lesson Kinetic Observation Form" were used as data collection tools. In the study, "experimental-control group pre-test-post-test design" which is widely used in experimental research models was based on. After the obtained data were analysed by using SPSS 20.0 package program and the values of Kolmogorov Simirnov normality test, cognitive domain skill, and arithmetic mean of kinetic domain skills, standard deviation, minimum score and maximum scores were analysed, Paired Samples Statistics t-test was performed in order to determine the difference between the cognitive domain skills and kinaesthetic domain skills of the groups, on which traditional teaching model and the cooperative learning model were applied. According to the results obtained from the study; it was determined that the cooperative teaching method contributes to the development of the students at a significant level compared to the traditional teaching method when the development of the students in the cognitive and dynamic areas are examined. Consequently, it can be said that cooperative learning method, which is one of the student-centred learning methods used in physical education and volleyball teaching in sports, is more influential than traditional teaching method. According to the results obtained, using different teaching methods such as cooperative learning model in physical education and sports education can be expressed as a suggestion of our study. Key words: Volleyball Teaching, Cooperative Learning Model, Traditional Teaching Model, Active Learning.