Building and rationing a working battery to measure the physical adequacy of the admission of female students to the Faculty of Mathematical Education for Girls

Source abstract

The research aimed to develop a factorial battery to measure the physical fitness competence required for the admission of female students to the College of Physical Education for Women, and to standardize this battery by establishing normative scores for the selected tests. The researcher employed the descriptive method using a survey approach. The research sample consisted of 103 first-year students from the College of Physical Education for Women at the University of Baghdad. Twenty tests were administered to the participants, and the data were statistically analyzed using the SPSS software. The researcher used factor analysis through the principal component method (Harold Hotelling), and after applying orthogonal rotation, nine factors were initially extracted. Based on the criteria for factor acceptance, five factors were retained, which formed the final battery. The key conclusions were: (1) five factors were identified to assess physical competence—explosive arm strength, endurance, agility, and speed; and (2) normative scores were derived for all tests included in the battery. The researcher recommended: (1) using the developed battery for selecting candidates applying to the College of Physical Education, and (2) employing the battery’s standards for evaluating performance across the included tests.