Effect of sport education on students’ perceived physical literacy, motivation, and physical activity levels in university required physical education: a cluster-randomized trial
- Resource Type
- Original Paper
- Authors
- Choi, Siu Ming; Sum, Kim Wai Raymond; Leung, Fung Lin Elean; Wallhead, Tristan; Morgan, Kevin; Milton, Daniel; Ha, Sau Ching Amy; Sit, Hui Ping Cindy
- Source
- Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research. 81(6):1137-1155
- Subject
- Sport education
University physical education
Physical literacy
Physical activity
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0018-1560
1573-174X
Originating from the field of physical education, physical literacy is an individual disposition that accentuates the importance of lifelong physical activity. Sport education is a sport-based physical education curriculum and instructional model that has been espoused to operationalize physical literacy. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of sport education within a compulsory physical education program on university students’ physical literacy and physical activity levels. A parallel-group single-blind cluster-randomized research design was used to examine the effect of a 10-lesson sport education intervention in physical education on students’ physical activity and physical literacy from baseline through post-intervention and follow-up phases. A total of 372 participants completed all phases of data collection. Results showed increases in the affective and social domains of physical literacy across both groups. Findings also revealed a greater increase in daily self-reported physical activity levels and a reduction in perceived disempowering motivational climate in the sport education group at the follow-up phase. With a limited controlling and ego-evolving climate, sport education was found to be beneficial in developing the behavioral domain of undergraduate student physical literacy.