The Relative Effectiveness Of Two Methods Of Teaching The Tennis Serve

Author : Susan E. Inglis
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Effectiveness of Two Methods for Teaching Beginning Tennis written by Susan E. Inglis and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of an individualized self-instruction method and a traditional method for teaching beginning tennis. Subsidiary problems within this study were concerned with differences between the two methods over time related to physical skill performance, form during physical skill performance, knowledge gained and enjoyment. Subjects for this study were twenty female university students who qualified as beginning tennis players. These subjects formed two groups of ten; they participated in seven, one hour tennis lessons over a four week period. In addition to the lessons, the groups met for a pre-fest, post-test and a retention-test session. Tests administered during these testing sessions for data collection included a wall test, a serve test, subjective ratings of the wall and serve tests, and a knowledge test. Throughout the lessons comments were obtained from subjects as a measure of participant enjoyment of the lessons. The data analysis utilized analysis of variance to compare means of the two groups on the wall test, serve test, and subjective rating scores, as well as Pearsonproduct correlations to determine the relationship between subjective ratings and physical performance on the wall test and the serve test. A Spearman-rank order correlation as well as percentage agreement were used to determine the reliability of the three judges on the subjective rating evaluations. The odd-even Spearman-Brown correlation was used to determine the reliability of the knowledge test and a t-test was administered to test for significant differences between score means on the knowledge exam. The results of this study indicated that the selfinstruction method for teaching beginning tennis was as effective as the traditional method. Significant differences, in favor of the self-instruction method, were reported over the testing times on the wall test and the subjective serve ratings. The results of the Pearson-product correlations showed a high relationship between the subjective ratings and the performance on the wall test. The relationship reported for the serve test and the subjective ratings was lower, thus indicating the need for further research for the development of a serve test that measures form and accuracy for beginning tennis. The reliability coefficient for the judges was high; making the subjective evaluation a useful instrument in measuring individual form during the performance tests. The knowledge test used in this study was found to be reliable as determined by the odd-even reliability correlation. These findings add support for continued investigation into the development of effective teaching methods.