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The students were presented with a list of seven activities that they might do in physical education at school, and were asked to tick up to three activities that they most like to do. Compared to Mäori students in general education, students in Mäori immersion settings were similarly and highly enthusiastic about ball activities, dramatically less enthusiastic about athletics, substantially more enthusiastic about swimming, and somewhat more enthusiastic about gymnastics, dance, and te reo kori.
FAVOURITE ACTIVITIES
% responses
GEd MI
ball activities
67 69
athletics
44 2
swimming/aquatics
29 49
fitness
27 31
gymnastics
21 33
dance
19 31
te reo kori (Mäori activities)
16 29
The students were then presented with a list of six ways of doing physical education activities, and were asked to tick up to three ways that they liked. The responses are shown adjacent, ordered from most to least popular for year 8 students. The patterns are very similar for Mäori students in general education and students in Mäori immersion settings.
FAVOURITE APPROACHES TO PHYSICAL EDUCATION
% responses
GEd MI
class games
56 60
doing things in teams
54 51
school sports days
47 51
playing for fun
(not winning or losing)
43 40
competitions (winning or losing)
40 40
doing things on your own
12 22

When asked to write down up to three very important things a person needs to learn or do to be good in physical education, Mäori students in general education emphasized fitness most, followed by three almost equally popular options: good sportsmanship, positive attitudes and effort, and physical or game skills. Students in Mäori immersion settings emphasized physical or game skills most, followed in turn by training/practising, fitness, and good sportsmanship.

When asked to write down three really important things they had learned in physical education, large majorities of both groups mentioned the rules, techniques or skills of particular activities or games. For Mäori students in general education good sportsmanship, cooperating with others, and positive attitudes or effort came next, while for students in Mäori immersion settings fitness, training/practising, and warm-ups/stretches came next.

Responses to the 9 rating items are presented below. Compared to Mäori students in general education, students in Mäori immersion settings were equally positive about physical education at school and in their own time and about equally physically active over the 24 hours preceding the survey. They were somewhat less enthusiastic about increasing the amount of physical education at school and about continuing physical education when they were older, but were somewhat more positive about their own ability and how their teacher and family viewed their ability.

 

Te Mätauranga Korikori - Physical Education              Rating Items Survey 2002
percentages — Mäori students in general education    Mäori Immersion students
 don't know
 1.   How much do you like doing P.E. at school?
62  64
30  32
7  4
1  0
 
 2.   How good do you think you are at P.E?
31  47
57  42
7  7
2  0
 3  4
 3.   How good does your teacher think you are at P.E?
24  38
32  31
9  7
3  4
  32  20
 4.   How good does your family think you are at P.E?
43  53
27  29
6  3
1  2
  23  13
 5.   How do you feel about doing things in P.E. you haven’t tried before?
36  24
52  52
10  17
2  7
 
 6.   How much do you like doing P.E. in you own time (not at school)?
46  48
35  45
17  2
2  5
 
 
more
about the same
less
 
 7.   Would you like to do more P.E. or less P.E. at school?
69  51
30  42
1  7
 
 
yes
maybe/not sure
no
 
 8.   Do you want to keep learning P.E when you are older?
68  50
30  45
2  5
 
 
0 mins
1–15 mins
16–30 mins
31–45 mins
46–60 mins
>60 mins
 9. How many minutes of vigorous physical activities have you done since this time yesterday?
22  26
11  10
7 11
3  4
12  9
45  40
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