The Development of a Body-Weight Physical Exercise Program to Promote 4th Grade Students’ Physical Efficiency Basing on Demonstration Learning Activities

Abstract

The objectives of the present study are 1) to develop a body-weight physical exercise program to promote grade-4 students’ physical efficiency basing on demonstration learning activities so as to have an effectiveness criterion of 80/80, 2) to identify effectiveness index of the body-weight exercise program that effects the students’ physical efficiency and 3) to compare the students’ pretest and posttest physical efficiency.  The target group consisted of 18 grade-4 students in Ban Dong Saentaw School (Padungrastr Wittayakarn School) who were purposively selected during the first semester of the 2020 academic year. The study employed the One-Group Pretest-Posttest Design for the experiment.  Research instruments included 1) a body-weight physical exercise program, 2) a lesson plan on physical efficiency based on demonstration learning activities and 3) a practical physical efficiency test.  The collected data were analyzed by means of descriptive statistics and content analysis for percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation and a t-test. 

The Findings show that:

1. The effectiveness of the body-weight physical exercise program for the promotion of 4^th grade students’ physical efficiency is found to be 88.18/88.69 which is higher than the prescribe criterion of 80/80,


2. The effectiveness index of the body-weight exercise program that effects the students’ physical efficiency is at 0.6118. This shows that the students had made a higher physical efficiency for 61.18%,

A comparison of the students’ pretest and posttest physical efficiency shows that their posttest physical efficiency is significantly higher than their pretest one at the .05 level of significance