Effect of Instruction on Development of Throwing for Accuracy of First Grade Children

Abstract

Two experimental groups and two control groups, composed of boys and girls respectively, were studied to see to what extent instruction in the overhand throw for accuracy is practicable for first grade children. Each group received 26 twenty-minute periods of instruction in throwing or practice in games using a ball. Each group was tested five times. The results indicated no statistically significant differences between the mean gains of the experimental and control groups for either boys or girls. However, the experimental groups did have consistently higher mean gains for all test periods.