Student Self-Efficacy on Personal and Social Responsibility within A Sport Education Model

Abstract

Character education is so important that the essentiality is emphasized in families, schools, societies and even nations nowadays. Modern citizens should cultivate basic character education, in which responsibility is a character trait. In addition to situations, good instructional design and the application of proper instructional strategies, different experience operation in sporting activities, learning social behavior by participating in sports, and developing sportsmanship for social life are covered in character education for developing good character. Nonequivalent pretest/posttest control group design is applied in this study to precede quasi-experimental study, with total 112 students in two classes in a university in Fujian Province as the experimental research subjects. An experimental class (56 students) is taught with Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility, and the other control class (56 students) remains traditional teaching. The experimental teaching research is preceded for 32 weeks (3 hours per week for total 96 hours); Sport Education Model is integrated into the instruction in the last 16 weeks, but not the first 16 weeks. The research results are summarized as followings: Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility presents remarkable effects on sense of responsibility; Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility reveals notable effects on exercise self-efficacy; Sport Education Model appears significant effects on sense of responsibility; Sport Education Model presents remarkable effects on exercise self-efficacy; Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility integrated Sport Education Model could best enhance sense of responsibility; Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility integrated Sport Education Model could best promote exercise self-efficacy. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting to cultivate good physical fitness of students and enhance the motor skills to achieve the idea of Sport for All as well as to cultivate personal responsibility and teamwork spirit of students.