Improving Social Skills through Physical Education in Elementary 4th Year

Pedro Gil Madrona^1, , Amaury Samalot-Rivera², Eva Cristina Gutiérrez Marín¹, Jesús Rodenas-Jiménez³ and Mª Llanos Rodenas-Jiménez⁴

¹Facultad de Educación de Albacete. Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain

²State University of New York at Brockport Department of Kinesiology, Sport Studies, and Physical Education, EE.UU

³Subdelegate of Students of School of Education. Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain

⁴English as a Foreign language teacher from. Consejería de Educación de Comunidad Madrid, Spain

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Pedro Gil Madrona, Amaury Samalot-Rivera, Eva Cristina Gutiérrez Marín, Jesús Rodenas-Jiménez and Mª Llanos Rodenas-Jiménez. Improving Social Skills through Physical Education in Elementary 4th Year. American Journal of Sports Science and Medicine. 2014; 2(6A):5-8. doi: 10.12691/AJSSM-2-6A-2

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to check to what extent the application of a particular social skills program through the content block of games in physical education for students from four primary course these skills improved after implementation for a month (10 classes -sessions). The sample consisted of 24 students (12 boys and 12 girls) aged between 9 and 10 years in a center of the province of Albacete in Spain. It is a quasi-experimental pre-post with no control group. As assessment tools students passed the Social Skills Questionnaire Ambezar group, consisting of 20 items to which we must respond with "almost always", "sometimes" and "almost never". After implementing the program are found to have increased social skills implemented. The boys spend an average of 1.68 in social skill at program startup to a 1.73 at the end of it, and students from 1.54 at baseline to 1.57 at the end.

Keywords

social skills, learning, games, physical education, elementary education

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