| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 特殊教育學系 === 103 === The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of the aerobic dance on physical fitness for students with learning disabilities in the elementary school. In this research, the Withdrawal Design of the Single-subject Research Design Method is adopted. Three 11-to-12-years-old elementary school students with learning disabilities are selected as the research participants. The independent variable is the aerobic dance teach; the dependent variable, however, is the performance of the physical fitness test results including body composition, cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular strength and muscular endurance, and flexibility. The study duration is divided into 3 stages- baseline, intervention, and maintenance phase, which is proceeded for 10 weeks in total with 40 minutes aerobic dance intervention twice a week. To understand the intervention and maintenance effects of these test subjects’ physical fitness after the intervention of the aerobic dance teach, the physical fitness norm of middle and elementary school students published by Ministry of Education in 2012 is adopted as the reference for the test results comparison. Visual Analysis Method, C Statistics, and Effect Size, are also applied for the data analysis. The research results are concluded as follow.
1.Intervention effect
With the comparison of the physical fitness norm published by the Ministry of Education in 2012, the effect of the aerobic dance invention is positive and obvious to the underachieving elementary school students with learning disabilities. The analysis results based on the C Statistics also illustrate the z values in items of “muscular strength and muscular endurance” and “flexibility” reach a very significant level (p<.01). Similarly, the intervention effect shown by the calculated Effect Size also demonstrates as high level.
2.Maintenance effect
With the comparison of the physical fitness norm published by the Ministry of Education in 2012, it shows that the aerobic dance can provide effective maintenance effect in physical fitness to underachieving elementary school students with learning disabilities in items of “cardiorespiratory fitness”, “muscular strength and muscular endurance”, and “flexibility”; for the maintenance effect of body composition, however, it varies from person to person. For the Virtual Analysis results, it presents the positive maintenance effect in items of “muscular strength and muscular endurance” and “flexibility”. For the calculated Effect Size, it demonstrates high level maintenance effect in the term of “muscular strength and muscular endurance”, but for the item of flexibility, it then belongs to personal basis.
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