ASANA PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT BY PRESENTATION TEACHING AND CO-OPERATING LEARNING METHOD

Abstract

           The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of presentation teaching method (PTM) & co-operative learning method (CLM) on asana performance in yoga. It is pre-test- post-test non-equivalent quasi-experimental groups design, in which 30 girl students of 8^th standard was purposively selected as sample from Modern High school, Ganeshkhind, Pune. They were divided into two groups. First experimental group (n=15) assigned by PTM & second experimental group (n=15) by CLM. Asana performance test was conducted in the beginning & after implementation of 12 weeks teaching program as a pre-test & post-test. Obtained data by asana evaluation sheet, were analysed using mean, standard deviation, Paired sample ‘t’ test & Independent ‘t’test Results show that both the teaching methods are useful to improve asana performance. It was further concluded that CLM group asana score (M=23.80±4.66292) was superior to PTM group score (M=11.60±4.866), where ‘t’ value was 7.010 which is statistically significant at 0.005 significant level (p=0.001).