This study is designed to examine instruction behavior preference of participants in university General Education Curricular Physical Education. 429 students who participated in physical education of team sports, racket sports, and health-related spor...
This study is designed to examine instruction behavior preference of participants in university General Education Curricular Physical Education. 429 students who participated in physical education of team sports, racket sports, and health-related sports responded to questionnaires. The instruction behavior items of questionnaires consist of Training and instruction behavior, Democratic behavior, Autocratic behavior, Social support behavior, and Positive feedback behavior. Collected data were analyzed by ANOVA and Pearson's Correlations. The results of the study led to following conclusions :
1. The results of instruction behavior preference in gender demonstrated that there were significant differences in Training and instruction behavior and Democratic behavior. However, there was not significant difference in other behavior items(p〈.05).
2. The results of instruction behavior preference in age demonstrated that there was not significant difference statistically(p〈.05).
3. The students in health-related sports class preferred Training and instruction behavior and Democratic behavior, Social support behavior, and Positive feedback behavior compared with students participating in other sports(p〈.05).
4. There was not significant difference in instruction behavior preference considering past class experience(p〈.05).
According to the results of this study, university students who participated in GEC PE class have different preference in gender and sport type. Based on the results, instructors of university GEC PE will be able to aware of instruction behavior preference of students in class and to instruct effectively.