The development of instructional media for rhythmic gymnastics in physical education course

Abstract

Without employing additional media, it is assumed that students of physical education department might become less creative in developing body movements for gymnastics. Therefore, this study aimed at developing instructional media of rhythmic gymnastics for students who will become physical education teachers of primary schools. The instructional media development utilized some aids and musical instruments. The study employed experimental method with quasi-experimental design. The subjects of this study were students of primary school teacher education of physical education department. The study involved two classes including Class A as an experimental group consisted of 30 students and Class B as a control group consisted of 30 students. The data collection techniques were observation and a series of rhythmic gymnastics at both pre-test and post-test. The results indicated that the learning ability of the two groups were different after conducting the learning process of rhythmic gymnastics. The experimental group that utilized developed instructional media of rhythmic gymnastics showed a significant improvement compared to the control group that utilized conventional rhythmic gymnastics media. Therefore, it can be concluded that the development of instructional media for rhythmic gymnastics was able to improve the quality of rhythmic gymnastics learning.