Background/Purpose To investigate the effectiveness of Creative Problem Solving (CPS) intervention on tactical cognition and decision-making abilities in basketball training program.
Method thirty one players in this research were selected from two college basketball teams of the Chinese University Basketball League, and fifteen players were assigned to the experimental group, sixteen players were assigned to the control group. The participants were asked to complete the Tactical Cognition Test of Basketball Strategy before and after the intervention of Creative Problem Solving, and the decision making abilities were analyzed through the game task-sheets after the intervention during every week. Accumulated data were then analyzed by homogeneity test, MANOVA, trend analysis and other statistical methods. The level of significance for acceptance or rejection for this study was set at á =. 05.
Analysis/Results a) The experimental group that were put into the creative problem solving intervention applied in basketball training program showed higher scores in basketball strategy tactical cognition, which includes “comprehensiveness strategy”, “offense strategy” and “overall scoring”. b) Both groups were significantly improved on decision making abilities.
Conclusions This study suggested that basketball training program on college players could improve basketball tactical cognition and decision making abilities by using CPS. Thus, creative problem solving model does have positive achievement in the training of college basketball players.