INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY 7th JOINT - IOA

modelling through video/peer effective? b) Who motivated you the
most? (subjects only) and c) Is the duration of 12 weeks watching the
video effective?
The evaluation of the routines were based on the FIG 10 th Cycle
Code of Points and the updated Women Technical Committee (WTC)
Newsletter. Two top qualified judges of Malaysia were invited to rate
the routines. Both judges were awarded the gymnastics judge license
at the FIG 10 th Cycle Judging Course 2001 held in Kuala Lumpur. In
addition, past scores given to gymnasts in various gymnastics
championships in Malaysia had been very similar. With this, it was
hoped that construct validity existed in this study. Both judges were
paid for their expertise in providing a valid data towards the success of
this study.
Results
Homogenous status between the experimental and control groups
in this present study was analysed by using the independent t-Test.
The independent t-Test was then used to compare the posttest mean
total scores of subjects between these two groups. This type of t-Test
was also used to compare the posttest routine performances of the four
events in the experimental and control groups. Subsequently, the
paired (dependent) samples t-Test was applied to compute the
differences in the routine performances of both the experimental and
control groups after the intervention. The pre-posttests among the four
centers were also being analysed. Assumption of the homogeneity of
variances put forward by Ravid (2000) that underlies the t-Test for
independent samples was met as shown in Table 1.
Table 1
Comparison of the Pretest Mean Total Scores
Group Mean
Experimental
Control
4.126
4.159
Std
Deviation
0.883
0.854
- 571 -
Significant
(2 tailed /.05)
.915 - 0.108
t