STUDENT-TEACHER INTERACTION ANALYSIS FOR THE TEACHING OF SWIMMING APPLYING CHEFFERS’ ADAPTATION OF FLANDERS INTERACTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM

Abstract

This research emphasized the role of student-teacher interaction during
swimming lessons. Forty-nine (49) PE teachers, swimming trainers and instruc-
tors (28 females, 21 males) consented to participate. They all taught elementary
school students. A total of seventy-seven (77) lessons were videotaped and
coded with the Cheffers’ Adaptation of Flanders Interaction Analysis System
(CAFIAS) and Svoboda research study results. A relatively high level of inter
observer agreement (IOA) was maintained throughout the study ranging from
86% to 92%. Altogether we can conclude that in this special area of teaching
mobility, the teacher – student interactions that evolve are different from those
evolving in classroom or PE lessons.