Thai Traditional Games with Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity to Promote Fundamental Movement Skills in Moving from One Point to another (Locomotor Skills) Among Grade 1 Students
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Objectives of this research were to study the effects of Thai traditional games on fundamental movement skills regarding locomotor skills (FMS locomotor skills) by comparing 1) the FMS locomotor skills between the experimental group and the control group, and 2) the FMS locomotor skills in each component of the experimental group before and after experiments. Subjects consisted of 52 grade 1 students at Ban Krathum Lom School, chosen through purposive sampling. Research design was the nonequivalent control group design with continuous treatment. Research instruments included 12 lesson plans for Thai traditional games and The Test of Gross Motor Development, 2nd edition (TGMD-2), which has a reliability of 0.82 for 6-7 years old students, and 0.76 for 8 years ones. Data analysis was carried out using independent and paired sample t-test. Findings are: 1) The experimental group had significantly higher FMS locomotor skills than the control group with 0.001. 2) When each component of the FMS locomotor skills of the experimental group was considered, there were significantly higher values than in the pretest for run, gallop, and horizontal jump skill after three weeks, for leap skill after six weeks, and for hop and slide skill after nine weeks.
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