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The Effects of Counting as a Form of Concurrent Feedback on a Seventy-Five-Yard Dash

The use of concurrent Information Feedback (IF) through counting seconds verbally as the subject ran a 75 yard dash was tested. Forty-six ten and eleven year old boys and girls (boys = 20, girls = 26) were given two trials under four IF conditions: No IF; Terminal/Concurrent IF; Terminal IF; IF Removal. The counting occurred under Condition 2 and was combined with a final time given at the end of the dash. Significant main effects were found for sex and for conditions, with interaction effects between sex and conditions, and between conditions and trials, p4 .05. Results supported the combined IF condition with counting as maintaining subjects' level of performance, probably through motivation. Males performed well under Conditions 1, 2, and 3, while girls performed best under Conditions 1 and 2. Trial scores under Conditions 2 and 3 for all subjects were much more similar than under Conditions 1 and 4, indicating more consistent performance when IF was provided,

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc663231
Date12 1900
CreatorsParks, Jennifer
ContributorsBruya, Lawrence D., Gray, Bryan J.
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatv, 70 leaves: ill., Text
RightsPublic, Parks, Jennifer, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights

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