Scheduled for Sport Management, Psychology, and Leisure & Recreation Posters, Thursday, April 1, 2004, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Convention Center: Exhibit Hall Poster Session


The Relationships Between Goal Orientation and Perception of Learning Climate in Physical Education for High School Students in Taiwan

wen-yi Wang1, Chien-Chih Chou2, Mei-Yao Huang3, Chien-Tai Wang1, Ming-Hong Lin1, Chia-Hung Chen Chen1, Chih-Wei Lin1 and Chiou-Guang Wang1, (1)Taipei Physical Education College, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan, (2)Taipei Physical Education College, Taipei, Taiwan, (3)National College of Physical Education and Sports, Taiwan, China

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between goal perspective and learning climate on high school students' learning outcomes in physical education classes. Participants (n=454) were high school students in physical education classes, which included 262 boys and 191 girls in Taiwan. They completed the Task/Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire and the Physical Education Learning Environment Scale in physical education classes. The findings of this study indicated a positively significant relationship between task orientation, ego orientation, perception of challenge learning environment, and perception of competitive environment in PE (r=.54, .45, .30, p< .0001), and also a negatively correlation between task orientation and perception of threat learning environment(r=- .30). The results of this also revealed that perception of challenge learning environment was a significantly negative correlation with perception of threat learning environment(r=- .16, p< .001) According to the results from the regression model, the factor of task orientation (b=0.28; t=6.28, p< .001) was the major component of success for students' enjoying in participating Physical Education classes. Also, the results of this study revealed that enhancing student's task orientation (b=0.15; t=3.079, P< .001) while provided challengeable learning climate (b=0.29; t=5.98, P< .001) was positively affected students' enjoyment in physical education classes. However, the findings indicated that students perceiving a higher threat in the Physical Education learning environment could be a negative factor to influence the fitness knowledge test (b=-0.17; t=-3.79, P< .001). MANOVA (2 * 4 Gender * Goal Orientation Groups) were conducted to assess gender differences as well as goal orientation groups on measures of perception about learning climate in PE. The results of this study indicated a significant four high-low task/ego orientation groups effect, wilks's lamaba = .87, F = 5.94, p < .001, and gender by four different goal orientation groups, wilks's lamaba = .93, F = 2.12, p < .01. Further examination, the results showed that high task/high ego orientation group was significantly higher than low task/high ego orientation and low task/low ego orientation groups on the relating to the perception of challenge learning climate in PE. The results also pointed out that high task/high ego orientation group had significantly high than high task/low ego orientation and low task/ego orientation group regarding to the perception of competitive learning climate in PE. In addition, high task/high ego orientation group scored significantly lower than the low task/high ego orientation and low task/ego o orientation groups about perception of threat learning climate in PE.
Keyword(s): high school issues

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