Developing Physical Education Program Based on Contractual Learning to Enhance Physical Fitness and Mental Health in Medical University Students
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Background and Aims: The research on contract teaching mode is a reflection on the distribution of learning responsibilities between teachers and students in physical education classroom teaching. Give full play to the students' subjective position in learning, stimulate students' subjective initiative, and encourage students to participate in teaching. The objective of this study is to develop a physical education program based on contractual learning to enhance the physical health and mental health of students at the University of Chinese Medicine (GZUCM).
Methodology: Among 1500 college males and females aged between 18-19 years old students in the second year of the public physical education course at Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, a sample size of 30 subjects was determined by GPOWER calculations to carry out a teaching experiment. Using the Delphi questionnaire to formulate the content of the physical education curriculum, signing a contract with students to execute the training plan, starting an 8-week experimental implementation, testing students' physical health before the experiment and after every 2 weeks of training, and testing their mental health before and after the experiment, collating and analyzing the results by software package use the one-way repeated-measures ANOVA for analyze the results, and deriving the effects of the physical education curriculum on the change factors of physical health and mental health of college students.
Conclusion: the curriculum developed by the contractual learning method can improve the physical health as well as the mental health of college students. The contractual learning approach to physical education is practical and effective and can be promoted and used.
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