| Abstract: | The main purpose of this study is to understand the discrepancy and correlation among all the variables of each junior high school student after being in the orienteering curriculum. Experimental method was adopted in this study. There were 136 first and second-grade students studied in the researcher’s school, Mingjian junior high school, participated in this study eight hours a day from July to August in 2015. 31 people of them joined in two school games after school .Personal tests were given before and after the orienteering curriculum and school games. The questionnaire includes, background variables, Communication Scale, Creativity Scale, Complex Problem Solving Scale, Collaboration Scale, and Critical Thinking Scale. The results were analyzed by independent sample T-test, dependent sample T-test, ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation…etc.
The results are as follows:
1.The orienteering curriculum can promote key competencies of junior high school students.
(1) The orienteering curriculum can promote the willing of students participating school games, the familiarity campus, relationship, awareness of self-health, sports liking, and exercise frequency.
(2) Junior high school students participating the orienteering curriculum can enhance all the five key competencies and the whole key competency.
(3) There is mid-correlation among Communication Ability, Creativity, Complex Problem Solving, Collaboration, and Critical Thinking .
2. The results of the five key competencies among background variables are as followings:
(1) There are significant differences and better performance on “those who are willing to join orienteering school games ” to Communication ability and the whole five key competencies.
(2) There are significant differences between human relationship and “Communication ability.” The students who have better human relationship have better communication ability.
(3) There are significant differences on the Communication, Creativity, Complex Problem Solving, Collaboration, and the whole five key competency of “the experiences of school games”.
According to the above results, orienteering curriculum can enhance the five key competencies of junior high school students and is suitable for being the activity of freshman in order to promote their familiarity of campus. To sum up, it’s worthy to promote around by all the educators. |
