• Jesuraj A.
• Dr.M.Elango

Abstract: The purpose of the study was to construct a skill test battery for Female Field Hockey players. To achieve this purpose three hundred and thirty (n = 330) school level female hockey players of 14 to 16 years were randomly selected from various schools of Tamilnadu state, India. Sixteen game related skills as test items were selected as independent variables and the respective performance were assessed by coaches rating as dependent variables in this study. Factor analysis was applied to extract the significant factors responsible for variance and dominant skill related variables through Principle Component Analysis (PCA - Varimax rotation). Totally, PCA yielded three factors constitute of 12 test items out of 16 test items. The playing ability performance (overall performance) score of the players were interpreted by using a grading scale on the basis of 6-Sigma Scale as Excellent, Good, Average, Below Average and Poor respectively according to their overall performance score based on the percentiles norm, which was developed for all the selected test items.

Field Hockey, Dodge, Direction and Pace Dribbling, Angle Shooting, Long and Short Passing

"Construction of Skill Test Battery and Norms for Hockey Players", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 6, page no.749-753, June-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1806230.pdf

"Construction of Skill Test Battery and Norms for Hockey Players", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 6, page no. pp749-753, June-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1806230.pdf