Assessment And Construction Of Norms For Speed Among College Students Of Jammu And Kashmir
Abstract
Speed is an important skill-related fitness component that determines the physical status of an individual. In modern society most of the adolescents and young adults are not participating in physical activities and concentrate only on their studies. Therefore, we conducted the present study to evaluate the total fitness so that an individualized and practically feasible fitness program for the college students addressing the various fitness components in which they are lacking would be designed. The purpose of this study was to compare and construct norms for speed among male college students of Jammu and Kashmir. To achieve the purpose, 1200 male college students of age group 19 to 21 years, were randomly selected from two regions (Jammu region and Kashmir region) of union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Speed was selected as criterion variable and was measured by 50 meters dash run. The collected data was analyzed by using 2 × 3 factorial ANOVA to find out the significant difference, whenever the interaction effect was found to be significant the simple effect and then least significant difference (LSD) post hoc test was applied to find out the paired mean difference. In all the cases 0.05 level of confidence was fixed to test the hypothesis. The calculated standard deviation was multiplied by 0.07 to get the hull scale value. The hull scale value is serially added and subtracted to the mean score to get the percentile scale. The results of this study revealed that irrespective of age and region maximum number of male college students falls in the category of average. Those who score below the 50th deciles on speed in their respective age group should be encouraged to improve their speed. The study concludes with recommendations for an appropriate evaluative measures and early intervention fitness programmes for college students.
