Action research: The effectiveness of the sport education model on cultivating responsibility and respect for others in secondary school

Background: The Sport Education Model (SEM) is a teaching method designed to provide authentic sport experiences in PE lesson, unlike traditional teaching that only focuses on skills development. Based on the concept of value education, very few of studies consider it into teaching outcomes with the SEM in Hong Kong and the values of the responsibility and respect for others may have strong relationship to the sport competition when students are participating in different roles, organizing the team, and interacting with teammates. Research statement: The purpose of this action research was conducting a basketball unit in total 6 lessons to investigate the effectiveness of cultivating responsibility and respect for others to secondary students with SEM by collecting both quantitative and qualitative data. Methods: During my block practice, a form (or Secondary or Grade 10) 4 class of male students (n = 40) were purposely invited from a local secondary school and PE teacher participated in the study with my teaching. Data composed data of student’s learning form, teacher’s self-review and interviews (total 8 selected students in class, each of 2 from basketball team, the first, middle and last 10 ranking of academic result in PE) collected at the end of the teaching units. Results: PE score could not represent the learning of cultivating value of responsibility (weak negative correlation, r (40) = -.17, p =.283). There was not a statistically significant difference in the total mark of PSRQ between 4 groups (F (3, 36) = .271, p = .846). Both teachers and students were positively engaging in the lessons with SEM. The development of the responsibility and respect for others found in their satisfied with organizing a competition, including their work with participating roles, respect to teammates and building their team. Recommendation & Conclusion: The Sport Education Model might help to cultivate student’s responsibility and respect for others, that enhanced the awareness of social ability and solved some of the current PE problems of passive learning, little collaboration, and empowering students in their learning. It suggested to apply the Sport Education Model in different sports on cultivating student’s value and affective learning outcomes for PE teachers.