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The effects of a tactical games model unit on students’ volleyball performances in elementary school
- Source :
- European Physical Education Review. 27:1000-1013
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2021.
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Abstract
- The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a tactical games model instructional plan on game-play volleyball performances of elementary school students, taking into account their skill level. In total, 39 fourth-grade students (average age: 8.9 years) participated in a 13-week unit, in which each lesson exaggerated the use of small-sided games. In-game performances were assessed via the Team Sport Assessment Procedure, while students played a 10-minute modified game (four versus four). Data were collected pre- and post-intervention, and after the summer vacation (retention test). A 2 (skill level) × 3 (time) analysis of variance with repeated measures was used to compare students’ performance, and the relevant effects were interpreted mainly by means of confidence intervals and effect size measures. At the end of the instructional period, all participants had an overall moderate to large improvement, and this global improvement seems to have remained at least until the end of the summer vacation. Lower-skilled students attained a larger and more established improvement than high-skilled students did. However, some detrimental effects on in-game students’ performance existed at the end of the instructional period. Therefore, teachers have to take into account students’ skill levels when designing their lessons because, if small-sided games are adequately considered and managed, students’ learning processes can be enhanced. Furthermore, the students should be assigned appropriate learning activities to avoid summer learning loss in physical education.
- Subjects :
- 05 social sciences
Skill level
050301 education
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
030229 sport sciences
Plan (drawing)
Education
Unit (housing)
Physical education
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION
Small sided games
Mathematics education
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Psychology
0503 education
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17412749 and 1356336X
- Volume :
- 27
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- European Physical Education Review
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........f01356275aed4151c23738f1b54277a2