THE DEVELOPMENT OF ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES MODEL FOR KIDS TO PROMOTE FUNDAMENTAL MOVEMENT SKILL OF ELEMENTARY STUDENTS

Abstract

The foundation for the development of children’s essential skills is the physical development. Therefore, the development of children’s athletic activities model to promote fundamental movement skill of elementary students through research and development aimed to 1) study the context and guidelines for athletics activities. A purposive sampling was used to select two schools as case studies, with 8 students target group using a semi-structured interview form that had passed quality validity. Data were collected by interview and analyzed through data synthesis for summarizing overall model, 2) create and develop the model by creating a skill test and a satisfaction assessment with reliability values of 0.76 and 0.80, and 3) evaluate through try-out of the model with 31 students based on a purposive sampling. Skills were tested according to a quasi-experimental research design and satisfaction evaluation, which were analyzed using One-way Repeated ANOVA. Satisfaction analysis was conducted using mean and standard deviation. The research findings indicated that most of children’s athletic activities were including the physical education courses. Therefore, a suitable solution that is one of simple activities should be started until various activities completed. The developed athletic activities model contained four components namely: Principle and Rationale, Objectives, Activities and Procedures, and Evaluation. Lastly, after participating in the developed activities, students improved their fundamental movement skills, compared to their skills before joining the activities. Their satisfaction was at the highest level, implying that the developed activities model would be practically utilized to promote fundamental movement skills of students.