Abstract
The aim of this study was to determine the effect of experience of
the secondary education
(
class 10th and 11th) students‟ participation on artificial wall climbing
refe
r
r
ed to experiential
learning education and defined as high activity on th
eir locus of control
.
Artifical wall climbing is a learning point beyond the sport act
ivity that give an opportunity
to participants recognize their own limits and others and do they
active not passive
.
This study was done as pretest
-
posttest control group with quasi
-
experimental model and the
data were collected using
„ Nowicki
-
Strickland Locus of Control Scale‟ adapted to Turkish by
Yeşilyaprak (1988)
.
In this research, 90 students (40 female, 50 male)
aged
17
,75
±1.06
participated voluntery and divided in two groups as a trail and control group randomly.
Trial
group participated artifcial wall climbing twice a week, totel six weeks. During this time
period the control group not join any activity has
continued to normal life. As a result of the
statistical analysis, no significant
difference
s
were
found between control and trial groups pre
-
test scores (p>0.05). No significant
difference
s
were
found between pre and post
-
test scores
of control group
(p>0.05), significant
differences
were
found between pre and post
-
test
scores of trial group (p<0.05).
Statistic
s of independent variable gender for trial group were
that between pre
-
test scores were found significant
differences
(p<0.05), between post
-
test
scores no significant differences (p>0.05) and no significant differences between the
difference of the differences (p>0.05).
C
onsequently, it could be said that the articifal wall climbing activities has a positive efect on
the particip
ants‟ locus of control, it caused a movement from out side to inside.
And it has a
significant effect on gender differences, that women have more gain than men.
Citation
ID:
48580
Ref Key:
ozen2014theinternational