The Effect of Responsibility-Based Aquatic Teaching on the Respect and Caring of Middle School Students

Accident cases in the aquatic teaching indicate that students have not yet formed an attitude responsibility. The purpose of this study was to determine whether there is an effect of responsibility-based aquatic teaching on respect and caring. This study used an experimental method with one group pretest-posttest design. The study population was eighth-grade students who studied the aquatic lesson (the experimental condition, n = 75). The research sample was selected using cluster random sampling. The 75 participants consist of 40 boys and 35 girls. The experimental test of the effect of the responsibility-based aquatic teaching was carried out for 10 sessions. By analyzing the paired sample t-test data, the results show that the students who took the aquatic lesson demonstrated that there is significant effect between responsibility-based aquatic teaching on increasing student' respect (p < .05, d = 0.14) and on increasing student' caring (p < .05, d = 0.95). Data analysis shows that there is a significant influence of responsibility-based aquatic teaching on increasing student respect and caring (t = 6.8575, p = 0.00 <0.005), so that responsibility-based aquatic teaching is effective in increasing the respect and caring of students. Current studies indicate that the effect of that responsibility-based aquatic teaching has an impact on student responsibility. This attitude appears in an enhancing aspect: respect and caring. Responsibility-based aquatic teaching in this study creates a meaningful and more responsible learning environment. Research findings also suggest that responsibility-based aquatic teaching provides a strong framework for creating a positive and meaningful learning environment. This is relevant to the use of responsibility teaching models in physical education in middle schools.