EFFECTIVENESS OF PRESENTATION TEACHING & CO-OPERATIVE LEARNING METHODS ON ASANA PERFORMANCE IN YOGA

The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of presentation teaching method (PTM) & co-operative
learning method (CLM) on asana performance in yoga. It is pre-test- post-test nonequivalent quasi-experimental
groups design, in which 30 girl students of 8th standard was purposively selected as sample from Modern High
school, Ganeshkhind, Pune. They were divided into two groups. First experimental group (n=15) assigned by PTM
& second experimental group (n=15) by CLM. Asana performance test was conducted in the beginning & after
implementation of 12 weeks teaching program as a pre-test & post-test. Obtained data by asana evaluation sheet,
were analyzed using mean, standard deviation, Paired sample ‘t’ test & Independent ‘t’test Results show that both
the teaching methods are useful to improve asana performance. It was further concluded that CLM group asana
score (M=23.80±4.66292) was superior to PTM group score (M=11.60±4.866), where‘t’ value was 7.010 which is
statistically significant at 0.005 significant level (p=0.001).