The effects of application of music on the formation of students’ attitude towards physical education
A positive attitude towards physical education (PE) is an important component of students’ engagement in classes and extracurricular physical activities. Relying on students’ interests when planning the class work can contribute to the formation of such an attitude. The research was aimed a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | srp |
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Institute for Educational Research, Belgrade
2014-01-01
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| Series: | Zbornik Instituta za pedagoška istraživanja |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0579-6431/2014/0579-64311402364D.pdf |
| Summary: | A positive attitude towards physical education (PE) is an important component
of students’ engagement in classes and extracurricular physical activities.
Relying on students’ interests when planning the class work can contribute to
the formation of such an attitude. The research was aimed at verifying the
effects of the experimental programme “Inclusion of music in Physical
Education classes” on the formation of students’ attitude towards PE. An
experiment with parallel groups that lasted for 26 classes was applied in the
research on the sample of 141 primary school students attending the seventh
grade. In the initial and final testing two instruments for measuring the
attitudes were applied: the Students’ Attitudes toward Physical Education -
SATPE and the Connotative Differential (CD-15). In the final testing, the
experimental group also completed the questionnaire on students’ assessment
of classes with and without music. The analysis of variance has shown that
the experimental group achieved considerably higher scores at the final
testing compared to the initial on the cognitive and conative subscales of
the CD-15 instrument. This change was not linked to gender, PE grade and
involvement in music. It has been shown that students in the experimental
group assessed more positively the classes accompanied by music compared to
the classes without music, measured by the questionnaire on students’
assessment of classes with and without music. It can be concluded that the
application of music has influenced the development of a more positive
attitude towards PE, observed via the cognitive and conative dimension, which
points to the fact that it is justifiable and desirable to use music in PE
education. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 179018 i br.
47015] |
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| ISSN: | 0579-6431 1820-9270 |