The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a six-week exercise and rope jump program on AAHPERD Health Related Physical Fitness Test scores of high school females. Sixty-two students, aged 15 to 16 years, enrolled in the 10th grade physical education classes in the National Orthodox School in Amman, Jordan, during the spring semester of 1986, were subjects. / Pre- and post-tests (administered according to directions outlined in the AAHPERD Test Manual) were given to two groups. One group, composed of 31 students, participated in a designed exercise and rope jump program. The program consisted of warm-up, conditioning exercise, rope jump, and cool-down periods. The other group of 31 students participated in one or more sport activities; basketball, volleyball, team handball, and ping pong. / All subjects participated in 18 sessions, three times each week for 30 minutes, in a six-week period. Pre- and post-test scores were recorded for the one-mile jog/walk, body composition, sit-ups, and flexibility tests. / The following hypotheses were tested by the Pairs T-test, the independent samples T-test, and gain scores: (1) There will be no difference between the mean pre-test and post-test AAHPERD Health Related Physical Fitness components' scores of the subjects participating three times per week for a six-week period in an exercise and rope jump program. (2) There will be no difference between the mean pre-test and post-test AAHPERD Health Related Physical Fitness components' scores of the subjects participating three times per week for a six-week period in a regular physical education class. (3) There will be no difference between the mean post-test AAHPERD Health Related Physical Fitness components' scores of the subjects in the test program and subjects participating in a regular physical education class. / Level of significance was set at the 0.05 level. The analysis of the data led to reject the first and third hypotheses and to failure to reject the second hypothesis. / Subjects who participated in the exercise and rope jump program scored significantly better in all four components than subjects who participated in the regular physical education classes. Subjects who participated in the regular physical education class did not score significantly higher in any of the four components. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.) / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-10, Section: A, page: 3694. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1986.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75934 |
| Contributors | GHANIMA, SARI AHMAD., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 147 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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