Improvement of technical training of volleyball players in non-reference higher education institutions

The article presents an expert assessment of the mastery of the main technical elements by students who play volleyball as part of the university team. Our meta-analysis allowed us to identify five main indicators of technical training in volleyball, namely: serving (successfully implemented serves during the game), 1st reception, second pass, attack (attacking actions of players in attack), defence (defensive actions of players in defence, block, etc.). The assessment of the mastery of the main five technical elements of volleyball players was carried out by experts during the game activity at the beginning and at the end of the study. Experts evaluated each player separately, recording the data in the questionnaires we developed, which were then processed and reduced to the average static team performance. After analysing the data we received, we identified the weaknesses of the team, which allowed us to develop methodological recommendations aimed at improving all the studied indicators of technique with a special emphasis on the worst ones for volleyball players. The pedagogical experiment lasted for two months. At the end of the pedagogical experiment, we conducted a repeated survey of experts with the subsequent filling in of questionnaires and obtaining scores on the level of technical indicators of athletes. Our analysis of the data obtained at the beginning and at the end of the experiment allowed us to reveal an increase in technical indicators at the final stage by an average of 1.34 points for all the studied technical indicators. All of the above is evidence of the effectiveness of the methodological recommendations we have developed.