The Development of Float Serving Skill in Volleyball Game through Skill Exercises for Grade 10 Students

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to develop float serving skill in volleyball game through skill exercises for grade-10 students so that they made an achievement score of higher than 80%, and 80% of the students passed the criterion and 2) to study the students’ satisfaction with learning float serving skill in volleyball game through skill exercises.  The sample included 30 grade-10 students in classroom No. 4/18, in Kaen Nakorn Wittayalai School under the Office of Secondary Education Area 25, who were selected through a cluster sampling during the second semester of the 2017 academic year.  The research tools included 1) 4 lesson plans on float serving skill in volleyball game, 2) 4 sets of skill exercises in volleyball game, 3) a skill test on float serving skill in volleyball game consisting of 20 four-choice questions and 4 essay questions about skill exercises and 4) a questionnaire consisting of 20 items to elicit responses from the students about their satisfaction with learning float serving skill in volleyball game.  The collected data were analyzed by using basic statistics of percentage, arithmetic mean and standard deviation. The results of the study:

          1) The students showed a mean achievement score of 82.73 in float serving skill in volleyball game through skill exercises, and 93.33% of the student group passed the criterion which is higher than the prescribed criterion of 80%;

2) The students’ satisfaction with learning float serving skill in volleyball game through skill exercises was at a highest level in every aspect.