ERIC Number: EJ733309
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Jan
Pages: 15
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0273-5024
Effects of a Sport Education Intervention on Students' Motivational Responses in Physical Education
Wallhead, Tristan L.; Ntoumanis, Nikos
Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, v23 n1 p4-18 Jan 2004
This study looked at the influence of a Sport Education intervention program on students' motivational responses in a high school physical education setting. Two intact groups were assigned curricular interventions: the Sport Education group (n = 25), which received eight 60-min lessons, and the comparison group (n = 26), which received a traditional teaching approach to sport-based activity. Pre- and postintervention measures of student enjoyment, perceived effort, perceived competence, goal orientations, perceived motivational climate, and perceived autonomy were obtained for both groups. Repeated-measures ANOVAs showed significant increases in student enjoyment and perceived effort in the Sport Education group only. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that increases in task-involving climate and perceived autonomy explained a significant amount of unique variance in the Sport Education students' postintervention enjoyment, perceived effort, and perceived competence responses. The results suggest that the Sport Education curriculum may increase perceptions of a task-involving climate and perceived autonomy, and in so doing, enhance the motivation of high school students toward physical education.
Descriptors: Intervention, Physical Education, Statistical Analysis, Multiple Regression Analysis, High School Students, Student Motivation, Student Reaction, Personal Autonomy, Goal Orientation, Teaching Methods
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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