A study of the professional knowledge and training needs of dodge ball for the elementary school teachers in Tainan city

• Main Authors: Po-sheng Chang, 張博勝
• Other Authors: An-cheng Cheng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/40029800960716120354

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 體育學系碩士班 === 100 === The purposes of this study are to understand currently situation of the elementary school teachers in Tainan city on the professional knowledge and training needs of dodge ball, and further to compare the differences between professional knowledge and training needs of dodge ball for different individual factors. At last, to research the correlation between the professional knowledge and training needs of dodge ball. This study used questionnaire investigation to collect data. The questionnaire includes two scales : personal factors and professional knowledge and training needs. Each scale includes three levels : the cognitive of PE, the professional knowledge of training and the ability to train and coach. This study is to regard the elementary school teacher who teaches PE in Tainan city as the target. There were 545 available copies. The return rate of valid questionnaire was 90%. The data was analyzed by Descriptive Statistics independent simple T test, single-factor variation analysis, Pearson’s product moment correlation and Canonical correlation. The results of the study are as follows: 1. The majority of the PE teachers at elementary schools in Tainan city are female, married, aged 31-40, and tutors. Most of them graduated in non-relevant degrees of sports-oriented. 80% of teachers did not have dodge ball coaching or referee licenses and have never been participated in the study of the dodge ball coach or referee. The way of learning advanced studies is the Teaching Demonstration on Wednesday afternoon. 2. The score of professional knowledge is above middle. The highest is the level of professional training knowledge . The lowest is the level of coaching ability. 3. The score of advanced study needs is higher middle. The highest is the level of coaching ability. The lowest is the level of cognitive of PE. 4. There are significant differences in professional knowledge between different gender, position, educational background, the possession of dodge ball coaching or referee licenses. 5. There are significant differences in training needs between different gender, the scale of school, position, educational background, the possession of dodge ball coaching or referee licenses. 6. There are significant differences between professional knowledge and training needs and it was showed as positive correlation.