Effects of Teacher Centered and Child Centered Approaches on Actual and Perceived Motor Competence of the Elementary School Girls

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of a manipulation skills intervention program, on actual and perceived motor competence of the elementary school girls by teacher centered and child centered Approaches. For this purpose, 45 girl elementary school students of Qorveh (8.98±0.20 years) via a multi-stage random sampling were selected and after matching were divided into three groups of teachers centered, child centered and control. Each program consisted of 20, 45-minute sessions during a ten-week period. The results showed that in posttest the actual and perceived competence of two intervention groups were higher than control group and the child-center group was better than teacher-center group (P