The purpose of this Study was to investigate the effects of observational experience on the teaching behaviors in elementary school physical education. this study was to examine the differences of motor skill feedback and management behavior between o...
The purpose of this Study was to investigate the effects of observational experience on the teaching behaviors in elementary school physical education. this study was to examine the differences of motor skill feedback and management behavior between observational experience teacher and inexperience teacher.
The subjects were six elementary school teachers and divided into experienced group and inexperienced group. They have instructed about two years in elementary school. Three experienced teachers had participated in teaching behavior modification program as an observer during their college day.
Each subject taught 9 classes of physical education in elementary school. The teaching contents were limitted in basic movement, stunts, and dance. All the instruction were recorded with a audio tape recorder and analyzed with recording sheet 〔see Appendix Ⅰ〕.
Target behaviors were selected by researcher as verbal motor skill feedback behaviors and management behaviors. Skill feedback included verbal positive, corrective, negative feedback were divided into specific feedback and general feedback. According to the number of student, Skill feedback behaviors were divided into individual, group, and class feedback. Management behaviors included episode length and frequency of managerial verbals.
Skill feedback and managerial verbals were recorded with event recording when the behaviors were happened. And the raw data were calculated in percent and rate per minute. Episode length was recorded with duration recording when the behavior initiated to ended. The raw data were calculated in seconds per episode 〔see Appendix Ⅱ〕.
Observer reliability were made two times. Observer reliability for event recording on target behaviors were over .97 and duration recording were over .99.
As a result of analyzed data, Many differences were finded out. The subjects of observational experience group were higher than inexperience group in
1) total motor skill feedback rate per minute(3.9/1.4)
2) individual feedback rate (3.5/0.9)
3) positive skill feedback rate (1.6/0.1)
4) corrective skill feedback rate(2.2/1.1)
5) specific skill feedback rate(2.3/1.1)
And lower than inexperience group in
6) managerial episode length(11.1%/18.4%)
7) management verbals (10.9%/14.6%)
8) the rate, percentage, frequency of subjects, behaviors were lower than that of the student teachers who had participated in behavior modification program in their campus life.
According to the findings, Observational experience on the teaching behavior in physical education influenced positively on the teaching behaviors of elementary school teacher.