Research On The Achievement-objective-oriented Theory Applied In The Selective Courses Of Football At University

In the research field of motivation, achievement motivation is an important aspect concerned by many psychologists. With the development of cognitive psychology, the research object of motivation shifts from animals to human behavior so that an avalanche of research topics related to achievement need and achievement activity emerge in this academic field. Especially at present when science of physical education is witnessing a rapid development, athletic psychology has been attached importance by more and more scholars and teachers, among which the achievement-objective-oriented theory becomes a hotspot. In addition, many applied psychologists begin to explain the achievement motive of individual from the perspectives of social cognition and intellective level. They generally contend that the achievement motive of human being does not come from impersonality but their explanation of it and that the actual human behavior is influenced and decided by the factors of social cognition.This thesis conducts a theoretical analysis and experiment research of the achievement-objective-oriented theory applied in the selective courses of football at university. This theory expatiates that teachers utilize people's internal motive—they try to succeed in completing their tasks and they are willing to make efforts to achieve tasks which they attach importance and value to—in the way that it helps students understand their short-term and long-term goals and achieve them by making efforts on their own, in order to successfully carry out their teaching. This kind of teaching method can fully bring students'go-aheadism in learning new knowledge into play and assists them to achieve their short-term goals one by one and ultimately achieve the final.The methodologies adopted in this thesis are literature review, questionnaires, symbolic statistic, teaching experiment and logic analysis. The undergraduates of grade 2007 from two football classes as electives at Northeast Normal University in Changchun were selected as the subjects and the teaching experiment proceeded for a semester of 36 periods. During the teaching process, the writer made a comparative research between one class adopting"achievement-objective-oriented"teaching mode and the other adopting traditional teaching mode. Through the analysis of the physical performance, football techniques and theoretical scores of the students from those two classes, the writer found that the unitary performance of the former class which adopted the"achievement-objective-oriented"teaching mode is much better than the latter, and the differences are quite obvious. The same problem was found through the questionnaires conducted by students about their achievement motivation. The teaching experiment carried out by the writer proved that the "achievement-objective-oriented"teaching mode was efficient and suitable for football teaching at universities, and at the same time it could provide useful reference for the teaching of other disciplines.