The relationship between student-centered learning approach toward students performance in sports among physical and health education students in University Technology MARA

The purpose of this research is to investigate about the student-centered learning approach. There are three objectives of the study. First is to assess a relationship between student­ centered learning approaches toward their performance in sports. The second objective is to see a relationship between student-centered learning approaches toward their performance in sports based on gender. The third objective is to determine the differences between student­ centered learning approach compared to teacher-centered learning approach. This study used quantitative methodology. In other words, this is a descriptive correlation study, which investigates the degree of the relationship between student-centered learning approach toward students’ performance in sports. The questionnaire distributed to the sample of group which is 50 respondents of physical and health students at University Technology MARA. This research is suitable for nowadays because we can see that there are many research regarding methodology of teaching and learning from other researcher that intend to improve student performance either in academic or sport performance. The respondents were identified with having a strong preference for student-centered learning approach rather than teacher­ centered learning approach.