ABSTRACT

Background: A motivational tool that coaches believe improves performance of athletes is performance feedback. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of frequency of feedback with goal setting intervention for university male volleyball beginners participating on learning of volleyball. Materials and Methods: 120 right handed male students by average 18-30 years with no knowledge of volleyball were chosen randomly and by pretest serve, matched into eight experimental groups .To compare the pre-test, acquisition, retention and transfer of variance with repeated measurements, Bonferroni test was used in case of significant differences between groups.

Results: By analyzing the proposed hypotheses at the P ≥0.05 demonstrated significant differences between frequency of internal and external with goal setting ones. The eight practice conditions suggesting that frequency of feedback with goal setting intervention have significantly effect on transfer test.

Conclusion: In this particular study, external focus of attention along with coach setting was found to be more effective than an internal focus of attention with self -setting.

Key Words: feedback, external attention, internal attention, Goal setting