Relationship Of Teacher Behaviors To ALT-PE In Junior High School Physical Education

The purpose of this study was to examine teacher behaviors and student academic learning time (ALT) and to analyze the relationship between teacher behaviors and ALT in the junior high school physical education setting. The subjects in this study were nine selected physical education teachers and their classes. Each instructor and their students were videotaped in four separate classes. Interval recording procedures (5 second observe/ 1 second code) were employed with the Arizona State University Observation Instrument (ASUOI) to collect teacher behavior data. The Academic Learning Time - Physical Education (ALT-PE) instrument was used in conjunction with duration recording procedures to collect data on the appropriate motor engaged activities of the students. The data indicated that students spent a mean of 14.6% of their time engaged in ALT-PE. The most widely exhibited intervals of teacher behaviors were silence (33.5%), management (26.4%), pre-instruction (10.78%), and concurrent instruction (9.89%). Pearson Product correlations indicated that pre-instruction (r=.63, p