This research investigates and analyzes male and female high school students’ learning motivation and satisfaction in physical education according to the types of schools and class organizations. This research aims to discover and develop more effec...
This research investigates and analyzes male and female high school students’ learning motivation and satisfaction in physical education according to the types of schools and class organizations. This research aims to discover and develop more effective ways that can be utilized in Korean high schools to improve high school students’ learning motivation and self-satisfaction while they are involved in physical education.
For this purpose, 1,760 samples of students including 879 male students and 881 female 1st graders students are attending academic high schools located in Seoul and Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do in Korea were collected and analyzed, based on a survey of their eagerness to learn the PE syllabus and their gym class satisfaction.
Each item of the questionnaire was scored and statistically analyzed by SPSS/WIN Statistics Program 18.0. More specifically, ‘Cronbach′s α’ was used to test the reliability of the criterion adopted for this research and used descriptive statistical methods such as frequency and percentage for general matters of the above student samples. Meanwhile, ‘One way Anova’ was used to investigate the difference between eagerness to learn PE and class satisfaction, according to the gym class organization types. As a post verification method, the Scheffe test was conducted to find any significant result. Then, a simple correlation analysis (Pearson's Correlation Analysis) was conducted to review the correlation between subjects’ eagerness to learn and their class satisfaction, with the result of p<.05, p<.01, and p<.001 respectively.
Based on the above research method and procedure, the following conclusions were stated.
1. The eagerness to learn PE of male high school students was generally higher than that of females. It was highest in male same-sex classes in male high schools, lower in coeducation co-ed classes, and lowest in coeducation same-sex classes. There was no statistically significant difference among class organization types.
2. The eagerness to learn PE of high school female students was generally lower than that of high school male students. It was highest at female high schools with all same-sex classes, lower in coeducation schools with co-ed classes and lowest in coeducation schools with coe-ed classes. There was a significant difference among class organization types.
3. The gym class satisfaction of male high school students was highest in coeducational class, lower in male high school same-sex classes, and lowest in coeducation schools with same-sex classes. Here too, there was a significant difference among class organization types.
4. The gym class satisfaction of high school female students was highest at female only, same-sex classes, lower in coeducation schools with, same-sex classes, and lowest in coeducation schools with co-ed classes. There was a significant difference among class organization types.
5. The eagerness to learn PE and the gym class satisfaction appeared to have a significantly positive correlation. The eagerness to learn PE and the gym class satisfaction of male students showed a significantly positive correlation, excluding the ‘failure of fear’ factor, while those of female students were relatively less correlated than the male students. The trend, however, was very similar.