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Download full textSears, Constance; Husak, William S. – 1987
A systematic three-level ("Level 3") approach to research in the motor behavior area was used to investigate the influence of varying degrees of contextual interference in the acquisition of volleyball serving skills. One hundred and twenty-eight middle school subjects learned three volleyball serves during a 3-week long unit in a physical…
Descriptors: Drills (Practice), Intermediate Grades, Physical Education, Psychomotor Skills
Byra, Mark; Coulon, Stephen C. – 1992
This study compares and contrasts the effects of planning on the instructional behaviors of a group of preservice teachers across two teaching conditions, a plan condition and a no-plan condition. Twelve preservice teachers each taught two 25-minute lessons to classes of 7 or 8 fourth-, fifth-, or sixth-grade learners. Lesson plans were developed…
Descriptors: Feedback, Higher Education, Instructional Development, Intentional Learning
Hurwitz, Dick – 1985
Designed to assist physical education teachers realize the benefits of microcomputer usage, this paper presents the case study of a hypothetical middle school teacher who utilizes Apple computers for record-keeping, planning, teaching, and coaching. The case study shows how the computers save time, assist in individualizing instruction, help…
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
Kickett-Tucker, Cheryl S. – 1999
This paper examines the self-concept of urban Western Australian Aboriginal school children, aged 11-12, in school sports settings. Most students were from the Nyoongar Aboriginal community of southwestern Western Australia. Data were collected from interviews with Aboriginal students and parents, class teachers, and sports teachers, and from…
Descriptors: Athletics, Elementary School Students, Ethnicity, Females
Byra, Mark; Jenkins, Jayne – 1997
In the inclusion style of teaching, learners must make decisions about level of task difficulty. They must decide at which level to enter the presented task and then, for additional sets of trials, decide whether to perform the task the same way, make it more difficult, or make it less difficult. This study examined learner decision making in a…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Class Activities, Decision Making, Educational Theories
Folsom-Meek, Sherry L. – 1992
This study was conducted to compare upper elementary school children's attitudes toward physical activity, by grade level and gender across six attitude scale subdomains in order to assist physical education teachers in planning programs designed to foster positive attitudes toward physical activity. Subjects (N=429) were 243 girls and 186 boys in…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Attitude Measures, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students
