Effect of Sport Education in University Required PE on Students' Perceived Physical Literacy and Physical Activity Level

Launched by CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG · Mar 21, 2019

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Scholars suggested the practical application of sport education could operationalize physical literacy that some features of this pedagogical model are positively associated to the development and attributes of physical literacy. However, there is no further supplement on the curriculum and pedagogical method for physical educators to develop students as physically literate individuals. Compared to primary school students and adolescents, university students are at the stage of transition from compulsory physical education in secondary school to more self-initiated physical lifestyle in adu...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Physical education classes: universities in Hong Kong which are funded by the University Grants Committee and provides required PE lessons.
• • Lecturers: graduated from master's degree or above, more than 5 years of teaching experience, in addition with the attendance of 12-hour continuing professional development workshop on Sport Education curriculum.
• • Students: aged 18 or above, enrolled in 1-credit required physical education lessons and indicated all statements negatively in the self-screening Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (The Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology, 2017).
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • did not wish to participate;
• • have currently used their own wearable activity tracker;
• • indicated any major physical, psychiatric, or cardiovascular-related problems diagnosed by a physician.