Recroational iiethod of Teaching Skills in
Physical hducetione

Problem:
To find a method of teaching skills in Physical iiducation
consistent with the seneral educational aims end the modorn psychological
knowledge of the individuel and his lesrnin:, processe

Procedure 3
Two equated groups of fourteen students each were used.
Group A taught by the Traditional additive parts method. Group B taught
by the functional pattern or Recreational methods Groups met separately for a
period of seven weeks, twice a week. The students knew nothing of the
experiment in progress

Conclusions...» and Results:
Group B learned the skills more quickly and better than
did the students in group A
Groups were scored by six members of the University of Kansas
Fencing team, as groups and as individuals, from 1 to 5( poor to excellent).
Group A recoived a group score of "2" or 'fair'. Group
B received a group score of 4 or ‘very good! .
64.2% of students in group A ranged between poorto fair.
85.7% of studente¢ in A were scored 2 or below.
20% of students in A hed scoro of 4.

Group B
21.4% wore betweon fair-good$ 2-5
78.6% were judged good-verygood33=-4... a vory
significant differemce here in the two groupSe

Average score for Group A (additive parts) was 1.48
Average score for Group B( Recreational ) was 329

On tho basis of the results obtained we believe that the
proposed Recreational method will be of advantage both th the learner and
the Instructor whon used in teaching sills in Physical Educatione

James Raport
Instructor in PHyse Ed.
Varsity ——