Effect of Smart Learning Strategy on Forward Roll Skill in Gymnastics: A Spatial Analysis

Abstract

This research aims to identify the effect of employing the smart learning strategy on teaching the forward roll to first-year students. The researchers hypothesized that employing the smart learning strategy has a positive effect on learning the forward roll for first-year students. The research sample represented the first-year students in the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences ,  Diyala. The researchers prepared educational units and applied them after the pre-test. Then the post-test was conducted and the results were extracted. They obtained that the educational units designed according to the smart learning strategy had a positive effect on learning the skill aspect of the forward roll skill better than the method adopted by the instructors.