Physical Education Department, Tangshan Normal University, Tangshan, Hebei, China.
BMC Med Educ. 2023 Jun 22;23(1):466. doi: 10.1186/s12909-023-04440-9.
The integration of training sessions into modern education is of vital importance for such disciplines as Physical Education and First Aid for the non-core specialities. This research explored the opportunities to introduce a pilot programme for Sports Medicine based on the First Aid and Fitness Tests applications to develop critical thinking skills in students using an indirect learning method.
This research used the Fitness Tests application developed by the ConnectedPE software company. The software contains more than 30 fitness tests and indicates the goal, equipment, procedure and standards so that students can easily and accurately complete all tasks and improve their fitness. The experimental group involved 60 first-year students (25 females and 35 males). The average age is 18.2 years. The control group involved 28 males and 32 females with an average age of 18.3 years. Students were assigned randomly to groups to ensure the experiment's validity.
The analysis of the pre-test and post-test of Critical Thinking Skills Success showed significant improvements in critical thinking skills (Z = -6.755 at p = 0.00) based on the integrated sports medicine programme. A negative correlation was observed between the post-test scores of Critical Thinking Skills Success and the Integrated Sports Medicine Test (r = -0.280, p < 0.05).
This article fills a gap in research on the possibility of integrating physical education and medicine into one ICT-based university course that would optimise study hours and develop critical thinking. The research's scientific value is to promote the discussion about the absence of a unified standard for the basic sports training of young individuals on a global scale. The practical significance lies in the enhanced development of critical thinking skills among students through integrated sports training sessions, as opposed to the conventional lecture format. The other important finding is the fact that the use of mobile applications and the development of a general programme in sports medicine have no positive impact or correlation with the academic outputs of students in these two disciplines. The research results can help educators to update curricula on physical education and extracurricular pre-medical training at universities. The perspective of this research is to integrate physical education with other academic disciplines, such as biology, mathematics, physics, and others, to determine the feasibility of this integration and investigate its effect on critical thinking.
将培训课程融入现代教育对于体育和非核心专业的急救等学科至关重要。本研究探索了引入基于急救和健身测试应用的运动医学试点计划的机会，以便通过间接学习方法培养学生的批判性思维能力。
本研究使用了由 ConnectedPE 软件公司开发的 Fitness Tests 应用程序。该软件包含 30 多项健身测试，并指明了目标、设备、程序和标准，以便学生可以轻松准确地完成所有任务并提高他们的健康水平。实验组涉及 60 名一年级学生（25 名女性和 35 名男性）。平均年龄为 18.2 岁。对照组涉及 28 名男性和 32 名女性，平均年龄为 18.3 岁。为了确保实验的有效性，学生被随机分组。
基于综合运动医学计划，批判性思维技能成功的前测和后测分析显示批判性思维技能有显著提高（Z=-6.755，p=0.00）。Critical Thinking Skills Success 的后测得分与 Integrated Sports Medicine Test 呈负相关（r=-0.280，p<0.05）。
本文填补了将体育教育和医学整合到一个基于 ICT 的大学课程中的可能性研究空白，该课程将优化学习时间并培养批判性思维。该研究的科学价值在于促进关于全球范围内年轻人基本体育训练缺乏统一标准的讨论。实际意义在于通过综合体育训练课程增强学生批判性思维技能的发展，而不是采用传统的讲座形式。另一个重要发现是，移动应用程序的使用和体育医学综合方案的开发与这两个学科学生的学术成果没有正相关关系。研究结果可以帮助教育工作者更新大学体育教育和课外医学预科培训课程。本研究的观点是将体育教育与生物学、数学、物理学等其他学术学科相结合，以确定这种整合的可行性，并研究其对批判性思维的影响。
