Physical education students' perspectives intermediate schools toward command, reciprocal and guided discovery teaching styles

Abstract EN

The purpose of this study is to examine students' perspectives on three teaching styles.

Sixty six (66) middle school students were interviewed and asked to rank the three styles.

A constant comparison process guided the analysis of interview data.

The ranking order data were analyzed via descriptive statistics, the t-test and the Friedman analysis of variance by ranks.

The results indicate that two the key concepts that influenced students' perspectives on the effectiveness of the teaching styles were their conceptions of the affective dimensions of each style and their knowledge and beliefs.

The results also reveal no significant differences in ranking the order of teaching styles.