英文摘要 |
The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of morning physical education (P. E.) from the Zero Hour Project on health-related physical fitness and classes learning of primary school students. A total of 72 students were sampled from the sixth grade of Hsi- Chi primary school in Taichung, Taiwan, and randomly assigned to experimental group and control group. Students from the experimental group were required to attend P. E. for 35 min per day and 5 days per week for 12 weeks, while no P. E. training for the students in control group. Evaluations of BMI, standing long jump, sit and reach, one-minute sit-ups, 800-meter running and walking and performance of mathematical learning were performed accordingly before and after the experimental session. The data were analyzed by the test of homogeneity regression, and ANCOVA to evaluate the differences between these two groups, and the level was set at 0.05. The conclusions were: 1. The basal conditions of health-related physical fitness in both groups were not significantly different. The values of BMI and the performance of 800-meter running and walking in the experimental group were lower than those of control group. Moreover, other results were higher than those of control group. 2. The performance of mathematical learning had significantly higher scores in the experimental group than the control group at the post test by one-way ANCOVA suggesting that morning physical education (P. E.) from the Zero Hour Project is effective in promoting mathematical learning of primary school students. 3. The results of this study demonstrated that both health-related physical fitness and class learning can be improved at the same time without conflict. These results can provide valuable information for further applications in educational administration. |