2009 Volume 29 Issue 1 Pages 1-15
The purpose of this study was to examine the learning possibility of the neck spring exercise on the vaulting which was exemplified as a teaching material at upper grades of elementary school in the course of study issued by Education Ministry of Japan. And also the effectiveness of “sub-teaching materials" and “teaching-learning process" model developed for achieving the neck spring exercise was examined through experimental teaching unit (9 hours).
The subjects were 78 students of 3 classes at the elementary school in Saitama prefecture. The classes were instructed by one same teacher. Students' learning behaviors and learning results in every hour of the unit were recorded by video tape. And the questionnaires of students' formative evaluation were done at the end of each classes. The main findings were as follows.
① At the end of the unit, the students of 87.2% could achieve the neck spring exercise. Thus, it was certified that neck spring exercise was proper teaching material at upper grades students in elementary school.
② The correlation coefficients between achieving rates of the neck spring and sub-teaching materials were gradually higher through the unit. At the end of unit, the correlation coefficients became extremely high. And also, as the parallel raising trend of achieving rates of “neck spring" and “sub-teaching materials" through the unit were recognized, we interpreted that the “sub-teaching materials" operated effectively on achieving of the neck spring exercise.
③ Students stepped up learning tasks by turns from the forward roll on the vaulting to the neck spring exercise. So, we concluded that the learning tasks of small steps operated efficiently on achieving the neck spring exercise.
④ A few students(12.5%) could not achieve the neck spring exercise. The “sub-teaching materials" used in this experimental teaching unit were not effective for all of student. It is necessary to develop and offer some more basic “sub-teaching materials" especially for unskilled student,
⑤ As the results of the students' formative evaluation through the unit, the experimental teaching unit was positively accepted by all of student. Students evaluated highly not only the skill learning results but also all of other evaluation dimension.
