Effects of Street Dance Curriculum to Physical Fitness for Junior High School Students

• Main Authors: Chu-y Chen, 陳句翊
• Other Authors: Sheng-FengKuo
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92352204049786363209

碩士 === 康寧大學 === 休閒管理研究所 === 102 === This study investigates the influence of physical class embeded with an eight-week street dancing curriculum upon the junior high school students, and determines the effect difference between male and female students. The studying subjects include the students from the seventh and eighth grades of Tainan Municipal Jhu Ciao Junior High School, with an experimental group of 20 male and 20 female students, and a control group students of the same amount. The ages of the male subjects are of 12.88±0.61 years old, and that of the female subjests are of 13.03±0.70. The experimental group would be given the street dancing curriculums of 45 minutes, twice a week, eight weeks in total, while the control group would take traditional physical courses. Physical fitness tests before and after the experiment would be done to evaluate the effectiveness according to the data of the 5 performances in physical fitness processed by paired-sample t test, and the data of each performance would be analyzed by independent groups t test to see if there would be any especially outstanding progress upon individual performance. The results show that a significant improvement for either male and female subjests in both cardiorespiratory endurance, tested by 800m and 1600m speed walking, and muscular endurance, tested by crunches within one minute. However, while the BMIs of the female subjects still show great improvement in both flexibility, evaluated by sit-and-reach, and muscular strength, evaluated by standing long jump, no noticible difference indicated by the BMI of the male subjects. The result of this study suggests that the emerge of street dancing curriculum into conventional physical courses may not merely rise the interets, but also bid solid benefits to the students’ physical fitness.