The purpose of the study was to compare the effects of massed versus distributed practice on gross and fine motor proficiency of male and female educable mentally handicapped adolescents. Twenty-six female and 26 male adolescents, aged 180-204 months, used a pursuit rotor to practice fine motor skills and a stabilometer for gross motor skills. Each subject, whether on a massed or distributed practice schedule, had 15 trials on the first day and 5 trials on the following day. Subjects who followed a distributed practice schedule had 30 second trials with 30 seconds rest between each; subjects who followed the massed practice schedule had 30 second trials with 5 seconds rest between each. The mean of the 20 trails was computed. / Six hypotheses were tested by ANOVA at the .05 level of significance. The results showed that males using distributed practice on a fine motor task performed better than females; and males using massed practice performed better on a fine motor task than females. Also, it was found that: (a) there were no significant differences between massed and distributed practice when learning gross and fine motor tasks; (b) there was no significant difference between the mean scores of the males and females using massed and distributed practice working on gross motor and there was no significant difference between the mean scores of males and females when learning gross motor tasks under massed conditions. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-09, Section: A, page: 2614. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75624 |
| Contributors | ABDULAHAD, DHARI TOMA., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 179 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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