Development of Achievement Inventory on High Rope Courses

高空繩索課程成果量表之編製

10.5297/ser.1902.002

林楷(Kai Lin)；余宗龍(Chung-Long Yu)

self-growth ； team building ； motor skills ； management skills ； 自我成長 ； 團隊建立 ； 動作技能 ； 管理技能

大專體育學刊

19卷2期（2017 / 06 / 30）

122 - 133

英文

The purpose of this study was to develop the Achievement Inventory on High Rope Courses. The inventory development can be used to identify the model that the participants have learned after completing a high rope course, and the important factors of high rope course achievement. This study integrated exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) into a two-stage process. Stage one was to produce a measuring inventory by generating initial items and proposing the initial model by the factor deduction process of EFA. Stage two was to confirm the measuring inventory and check the reliability and validity of the inventory. The data were collected from the participants of a military training camp with a high rope course in Taiwan. A total of 694 valid questionnaires were collected from the participants. First, 324 valid questionnaires were retrieved to establish the initial model by exploring related items and factors for constituting the initial model. Second, another 370 valid questionnaires were retrieved to test the model by confirming the factors and structure for finalizing the achievement of high rope courses. The results showed that Achievement Inventory on High Rope Courses (AIHR) had 19 items with four stable factorial components, including self-growth, team building, motor skills, and management skills. Our results further presented that participants learn from the high rope courses are not only include fitness of motor skills, but also personal development of self-growth and management skills, as well as the interpersonal skills of team building. Among these achievements from high rope courses, the factor of motor skills was a newly identified effect for the rope courses through this study other than the factors of self-growth, team building, and management skills, which had presented in previous studies. We conclude that the developed inventory demonstrated a well-constructed measurement with acceptable validity and reliability processed the practical value of measurement that could evaluate the achievement of taking the high rope courses.

本研究目的主要在發展高空繩索課程成果的量表，藉著量表的發展可瞭解參與者在參加這些特別的課程設計之後所產生的學習成果模式，以及模式中重要的學習因素。研究方法綜合探索性因素分析及驗證性因素分析，發展成為兩個階段的研究步驟：第一階段藉由產生初步問卷題目後利用探索性因素分析作因素的篩選來提出初步的模式；第二階段驗證這個測量的量表並檢驗這份量表的信度跟效度。本研究資料收集自臺灣軍事訓練營中高空繩索課程的參與者，總共收集到694 份有效的問卷，第一次324 份有效的問卷被收集來產生初步的模式，第二次370 份有效問卷被收集來驗證模式及因素跟結構。研究結果指出高空繩索課程成果量表是一個結構完整且有信度及效度的量表，其中包含「自我成長」、「團隊建立」、「動作技能」與「管理技能」等4 項穩定的因素構面及19 個題項陳述。本研究結論顯示本量表具有實際使用價值，可用來做為未來評估高空繩索課程成果的測量工具。本研究結果中也呈現出高空繩索課程的參與者所學習到的，不僅有體適能的動作技能因素，更是包含個人發展的自我成長及管理技能因素，同時也有人際相處技能的團隊建立因素。並且研究發現在高空繩索課程成果的成果中，相較於自我成長、團隊建立與管理技能等因素是曾經在以前的研究中被呈現過的，動作技能因素是本研究最新發掘出來的繩索課程效果。

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