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 Volume 9, Issue 1 (January 2022), Pages: 158-169

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: The knowledge outcome of students majoring in physical and health education during the COVID-19 pandemic

 Author(s): Nedal Ahmad Alghafary *, Subhi Ahmad Qablan

 Affiliation(s):

 Department of Basic Sciences, Teaching Curricula in Physical Education, Al-Balqa Applied University, Salt, Jordan

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8262-7963

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2022.01.019

 Abstract:

The objective of this study was to identify the knowledge outcome of students majoring in physical and health education at Al-Balqa Applied University studying the principles of sports training, nutrition for athletes, and sports anatomy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study adopted the descriptive analytical approach, where the curricula for the principles of sports training, the nutrition curriculum for athletes, and the sports anatomy curriculum were chosen, which were taught during the second semester of the academic year 2020/2021. In order to determine the degree of the knowledge outcome of the students, the study adopted the purposive sampling method in selecting the study sample. The students of physical and health education specialization at Al-Balqa Applied University were identified, where the sample consisted of 135 male and female students. The study concluded that the ratio of the total knowledge outcome to the knowledge outcome was at a moderate level with a percentage of 61.1, while it was low in the sports Anatomy curriculum 58.8. The results showed that there were statistically significant differences in favor of the students of Princess Alia College, and the results showed that there were no statistically significant differences between males and females in the nutrition and sports anatomy domain, while there were statistically significant differences in favor of males in the principles of sports training domain. This study increased the depth of understanding of knowledge outcome during the COVID-19 pandemic, whereas other studies were performed in normal non-stressful situations. 

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 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Knowledge outcome, Anatomy, Nutrition, Sports training

 Article History: Received 31 August 2021, Received in revised form 22 November 2021, Accepted 24 November 2021

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Alghafary NA and Qablan SA (2022). The knowledge outcome of students majoring in physical and health education during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 9(1): 158-169

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