The Relationship between Learning Styles and Intelligent Kinesthetic – Bodily among Students of Basketball Courses at the Sports Sciences School in the University of Jordan

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the relationship of the different learning styles to bodily-kinesthetic intelligence among students of basketball courses at the College of Sports Sciences. The researcher used a descriptive approach, utilizing the survey method. The survey sample constituted students enrolled in the basketball courses, ‘Basic Skills in Basketball,’ ‘Basketball 1’, ‘Basketball 2’, and ‘Advanced Skills in Basketball’. The number of male students was 100, while the number of female students was 74, resulting in a total of 174 students, For data collection, the researchers designed a questionnaire to assess the levels of learning styles prevalent among students of the School of Sport Science, learning styles consist of four styles: visual style, reading-writing style, auditory style, and kinesthetic style. The researchers also designed a second questionnaire to assess bodily-kinesthetic intelligence. The results of the study indicated that the order of the dominant learning styles among students in basketball courses was as follows: the kinesthetic style ranked first, followed by the visual style, then the reading-written style, and finally the auditory style. There was also a positive correlation between the prevailing learning styles and the physical-kinesthetic intelligence of students. Students of basketball courses in the College of Sports Sciences. The researchers recommended using the kinesthetic and visual learning styles appropriately while enhancing the educational process by appealing to the auditory and reading-writing learning styles when teaching basketball skills to students at the School of Sport Science.