Comparison of Selected Motor Skill Related Performance and Academic Achievement among the Sixth Grade Respondents

Abstract

The purpose of the study was designed to find out the comparison of selected motor skill related performance and academic achievement among the sixth grade respondents. During the academic year 2012 – 2013, 30 boys and 30 girls studying in government higher secondary school, Silattur, Erichi, Aranthangi, Pudukkottai, Tamilnadu, India were selected to achieve the purpose of the study. They were selected based on their academic achievement in the quarterly examination as above average, average and below average achievers making up a total of 60 respondents. The age of the respondents ranges from 12 to 14 years. The academic achievement of the respondents in the quarterly examination was considered as independent variables for this study. The criterion variables selected for the study are motor skills related performance such as 50 mts run and vertical jump. The data were statistically analyzed by using Two Way (2x3) Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) for evaluating the influence of the two criterion variables. The obtained results have three F- ratio, two for main effect; the first F- ratio for rows (referring to gender) and columns (referring to academic achievement) and one for interaction (referring to the gender and academic achievement). The obtained F- ratio for column (referring to the gender and academic achievement) was significant. Scheffe‘s Test was used as Post Hoc Test separately for column to find out the significant difference between paired mean. In all the conditions, the significant level was fixed as 0.05 level, which was considered to be appropriate. The result reveals that there existed significant difference between the above average achievers and average achievers; above average achievers and below average achievers; and average achievers and below average achievers of gender on power. There existed significant difference between genders irrespective of academic achievement on speed. Hence it reveals that there was no significant difference between average achievers and below average achievers; and above average achievers and average achievers of gender on power. Further, it also reveals that there no significant difference on speed among the gender at different academic achievement.