Title of Thesis: A Study on Fitness and Physical Education for Elementary Schools in New Taipei City: Implementation and Problems

• Main Authors: Kuo-Jung Lin, 林國榮
• Other Authors: 楊瑩
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28500882394077832842

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 教育政策與領導研究所碩士在職專班 === 102 === This study mainly, via adopting the methods of questionnaire survey, as well as literature review and document analysis, aims to explore the physical fitness of students and the implementation of physical education in the elementary schools in New Taipei City. The purposes of the study include: 1. To understand the perceptions of teachers towards the physical fitness of students in elementary schools in New Taipei City. 2. To review the implementation of physical education in elementary schools. 3. To analyze the relationship between physical fitness and physical education. 4. To explore problems faced in the teaching of physical education and strategies adopted correspondingly. 5. To understand the views of Physical Education teachers (PE teachers in short) towards students’ physical fitness and physical education in elementary schools. 6. To propose suggestions useful for the improvement of physical education in elementary schools in the future. 219 questionnaires were sent to the PE teachers in elementary schools in New Taipei City via stratified random sampling, 208 valid questionnaires, with a valid response rate of 95% were obtained finally. The main conclusions of this study can be summarized as follows: 1. The PE teachers mostly held positive attitudes towards students’ Physical Fitness. 2. As to perceptions of the PE teachers concerning students’ exercise habits, “students with basic exercise skills” gained the highest degree of recognition, whilst “students with regular exercise habits”, the least. 3. As to the perceptions of the PE teachers concerning students’ attitude towards physical education, “students are willing to participate the exercise in PE class” gained the highest degree of recognition, whilst “students are willing to participate the training for sports skill outside the PE class”, the least. 4. As responded by the PE teachers, majority of them were able to establish correct concept of students towards exercise through physical teaching, but few of them were able to meet students’ diversified interests and needs in their PE classes. 5. As responded by the PE teachers, majority of them were able to adjust their teaching methods in accordance with students’ physical situation in their classes, but few of them were able to adopt popular or fashionable sports to attract or raise students’ interests in their classes. 6. As responded by the PE teachers, majority of them were enhance the understanding of students about the competition rules of the games, but few of them think that their schools provided good, sufficient and convenient sport grounds or gymnasium. 7. As responded by the PE teachers, the problems of physical education faced by elementary schools in New Taipei City, “the inadequate provision of sport grounds or gymnasium” was the most serious one, then “students are not able to maintain regular exercise habits at home”, next. 8. As responded by the PE teachers, majority of them named “to gain the support of parents to assist their children to maintain regular exercise habits at home” as the top priority work need to be done in order to improve the teaching effect of physical education , and the next priority was the improvement of sports grounds, facilities and equipments. 9. It was found that there was no significant difference in the perceptions of the PE teachers towards students’ Physical Fitness in terms of their personal traits, such as gender, age, educational backgrounds, present post, and working experiences in being the sport trainers, etc.. Finally, related suggestions based on the findings of this study were proposed for the reference of the policy reform in the future.