Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to explore the impact of tutors‟ feedback on students‟
achievement in practical physical education classes. The study sought to find out the
types of feedback tutors give during practical lessons, impact feedback has on the
students and the guidelines tutors use to give feedback to students for maximum
participation during practical lessons. The study is centred on teacher-trainees of Foso
College of Education. Out of the of the 900 students (300 of them are the on out segment teaching practice) 61 selected students were used for the study and one
physical education tutor, two research assistants and a video man were used.
Observation, event recording instruments, video and close ended questionnaire were
employed to collect data for the study. It was noted that most of the respondents agreed that the tutor gives constructive
feedback. Only few respondents agreed that tutor sometimes give negative feedback.
Also, provision of specific feedback recorded high response. With the impact of
feedback on students‟ performance, high score on consistency, always and timely was
popularly accepted. The guidelines on giving feedback for maximum participation
also showed that most of the respondents gave positive responses even though there
were few negative responses.
Description:
DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, PHYSICAL EDUCATION,
RECREATION AND SPORTS (HPERS) FACULTY SCIENCE EDUCATION, SUBMITTED TO THE
SCHOOL OF GRADUATE, UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION, WINNEBA IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT
OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF EDUCATION DEGREE IN
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
SEPTEMBER, 2013