FACTORS THAT AFFECT THE MOTIVATION OF WOLKITE UNIVERSITY SPORT SCIENCE STUDENTS TOWARDS LEARNING APPARATUS GYMNASTICS PRACTICAL SESSIONS

Abstract

The researcher was aimed to investigate factors that affect the motivation of students towards apparatus gymnastics practical class in Wolkite University department of sport science students. When the researcher conduct this study there are some gaps in sport science department which affect the motivation of students, Lack of facilities and equipment, lack of comfortable gymnasium for practice, lack of enough gymnasium size with its full materials with in the gymnasium, lack of practice behind the normal programthe students experience, back ground, their motivation level, their physical fitness, the shortage of credit hours of basic gymnastics is some of them. The researcher used primary source and secondary source of data by using dig out the written document and distributing the questionnaires. The total populations of this study were 22 students from 2rd year sport science department students and 2 teachers from sport sciences department. From this total number of the researcher selected 15 students and 2 teachers from sport science department to the sample. Data was collected from 2rd year sport science department students by using qualitative form of data analysis method. The gathered data from respondents were analyzed and interpreted in table form in chapter four. FinallyBy the collaborative effort of students and teachers the factors can be minimized and the university is under great preparation to fulfill the facilities and equipment of gymnastics so that this can bring a physical and psychological adaptation towards the apparatus gymnastic practice.