&. The tests used were:
@e Eight tests of specific ability in basketball skill -

Speed Pass Dribble

Accuracy Pass Dribble and Shoot
Accuracy Shooting Ball Handling
Pivet and Shoot | Opposition shot

Deseription of tests ean be found at end of article.
b. Four tests of general athletic ability

Agility Speed
Endurance Coordination
Ge Brace Motor Ability Tests of Neuro-Musculer Co-ordination.
3. The method:

The basketball, general ability, and Brace tests were given
to the Experimetal Group at the beginning of the quarter,
and the basketball tests were given to the Control group at
the same time. After two months of instruction, of forty
minutes per day, in basketball fundamentals and two weeks
of actual play, the experimental group was again tested, to
determine whether or not any progress had been made in motor
skill. At this same time the control group was again tested
to see whether or not there had been any progress in this
group who had not been instructed. This group wes used
pRimarily in the basketball test to determine the validity of
this particular test.

The raw scores of each test have been reduced to
Tf - seale scores, to make all scores comparable and to prop-
erly place each student in relation to other students.

At the conclusion of the period of instruction, the
experimental group was scored and rated on their actual play~
ing ability as indicated in their performance in organized
teams. These data were recorded by student coaches and
scorers who watched particular men at play. |

: The Brace Motor Ability Tests were also given to the
experimental group to allow a comparison of three types of
tests and to determine whether or not one test had a greater
degree of predictability than either of the other tests.

A definite technique of instruction and drills were
used during the training period. Twenty different correlations
have been made using the Otis Correlation Method. Sixteen of

_ these are the individual and total bask®tball and general abil-~
ity tests which were correlated with the actual playing ability
seore to determine the reliability of the test. The other
four correlations were made between the general ability, basket-
ball ability, and Brace Motor Ability tests.

RESULTS: 1. The mean T+Score of the Basketball Tests of the Experimental group
is: pre-test, 45.5 and final test, 54.1; while in the Control
group the pre-test is 50.1 and final test, 50.5. The average