The Reasons of Elementary School Student Help Seeking Behavior in Physical Education by Case Study

• Main Authors: Tsai, Ming-Che, 蔡明哲
• Other Authors: Huang, Kuang-Hsien
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71256482576263889783

碩士 === 臺北巿立體育學院 === 運動教育研究所 === 100 === eeking help is much meaningful and adaptive than giving up or being passive when students faced the problems of learning. Therefore, this study was aim for explored the reasons of elementary students’ help seeking and reluctance to seek help behaviors. Case study has been used in this study. Participant: a sixth grade class in the Shihlin District of Taipei city was been selected by purposive sampling. Method: participant observation, semi-structured interviews, depth interviews, informal interviews, systematic observation method and video recording had been used for data collection. The researcher apply ways of instructor interview to triangulating and examine its truthworth of data. Quantitative data were processed by SPSS 18.0 for Windows to engage in descriptive statistics. Qualitative data were rearranged, induced, compared, and analyzed by open coding and axial coding. Conclusion: (1) the reasons of students’ help seeking behaviors: students apply way of spoken excessive help-seeking when instructor created a performance-approach classroom goal structure. (2) Lack of assistance and the threat of self-esteem affected students to adopt the observe (avoidant-covert) help-seeking. (3) The reasons of students’ avoidance of help-seeking behaviors: students’ avoid for help to get more activity time of the class and out of class. (4) Frustration experiences makes students feel low competence, and futher, those experiences affect students reluctance to seek help. (5) Other help-seeking type: students were voluntary to help their peers. (6) Additional finding: direct instruction reduced the behavior of students’ help-seeking.