CHS Varsity Boys Learning Style

Results
Five different sets of data were gathered during this research. These are the results, broken down by source, with appendices available for further review.
Learning Style Test Results – Team Aggregate
The aggregated learning style results for the combined team indicate that the team is highly auditory and kinesthetic. This means that, while the group does have minor visual and reading proclivities and can gain some benefit from related teaching techniques, the group learns best through hearing information and then acting on it. As a practical matter, this translates to physically walking through instructions that are clearly given.
Interestingly, the head coach demonstrates the same ratio of learning style characteristics that the
The team improved its win/loss record by 1, moving from a 3-15 result to a 4-14 result in NHIAA conference games. Of note, it also improved its record in non-conference play from 1-2 to 3-0, winning the non-conference tournament for the first time in ten years. It improved its offensive production by 11.5 points scored per game, and improved its defensive production by reducing points allowed by 3.7 points per game. This resulted in a loss margin differential that reduced by 5.9 points, yet while that margin reduction means that they were in closer games, it does not tell the whole story. In the 2015-2016 season, they had fifteen losses, with only three of those by less than ten points, one of which was less than five points. However, in the 2016-2017 season, nine of their fourteen losses were by less than ten points, and six of those were by five points or less. So, not only did they reduce the loss differential, they suffered many less blowouts and were in many more the games with a chance to win at the end, increasing the number of close losses from 17% of their schedule to 50% of their schedule. While any team would rather win those games, they demonstrated statistically significant progress, to the tune of a 33 percentage point improvement year over
Of note, the 2015-2016 team started with four seniors, but one was ruled ineligible, and three quit due to publically and verbally expressed dissatisfaction with the coach. In the 2016-2017 season, the team has six seniors on a team of fourteen, with twelve full time players and two underclassmen who split time between the junior varsity and varsity teams.
Overall, the increased participation of seniors from one to six was a 600% increase, and it allowed the program to keep the younger players down on the junior varsity and freshmen teams in order to learn and grow, and it was one of the key factors that allowed those two teams to more than double their win production from the prior season and to achieve much higher playoff tournament seeds as a result. The aggregated numerical results are available in Appendix F: Appendix F1 – CHS Varsity Boys’ Basketball Year to Year Improvements (Table), Appendix F2 – CHS Varsity Boys’ Basketball 2016-17 Results (Table), and Appendix F3 – CHS Varsity Boys’ Basketball 2015-16 Results (Table).
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