Abstract
Purpose: Swimming industry is improving faster than the other types of sport industries and populations of participating swimming are promptly increasing. In particular, kid swimming education is obtaining huge concerns partially due to Sewallho accident. Currently, swimming education for kids including elementary schoolchild has not established a systematic curriculum and evaluation criteria. Prior studies posits that a sense of achievement and challenge are a significant motives of kids promoting their participation in sports. Given this, overseas countries have developed and adopted a systematic swimming programs and evaluation indicators. This study is to generate strategic insights in terms of development of kid swimming evaluation system. Research design, data, and methodology: The study employed multiple case-holistic designs to analyze overseas’ cases. Given the selection criteria, cases of German, Japan, USA, and England were selected and their swimming evaluation contents were analyzed.BR Results: The study found that selected cases has developed systematic programs at elementary school level and effectiveness of the programs were evaluated through the inter-connected assessment test. Moreover, overseas’ cases has established official programs and assessment systems to improve swimming ability at elementary school level. Conclusions: Valid swimming programs and assessment tools need to be developed and they need to be inter-connected to effectively manage its programs and evaluation systems. Further implications and directions were discussed. Key words: Swimming Ability, Assessment, multiple case-holistic designs
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