Learning Basketball Tactical Actions during Physical Education lessons

Which visualization format is best for communicating dynamic information? What factors need to be taken into account when choosing a format of visualization? Recent studies testing the effectiveness of dynamic against static visualizations have yielded mixed results. However procedural motor learning is one of the few fields in which dynamic formats have shown to be effective. Many of the studies have suggested that this advantage is mainly due to the activation of the “mirror‐neuron system”. This research project explores this explanation in physical education domain. First we tested the impact of dynamic versus static visualizations on overall learning of basketball tactical actions. Second we tried to identify how varied level of content complexity could affect students’ learning when studying depicted basketball tactical actions either in dynamic or static manner. Overall the results recommend the use of dynamic visualizations during physical education lessons to improve student’s comprehension performance and subjective experiences when learning basketball tactical actions.