Sport education-based irregular teaching unit and students’ physical activity during school recess

Carolina Casado-Robles, Daniel Mayorga-Vega, Santiago Guijarro-Romero and Jesús Viciana

The Journal of Educational Research, 2020, vol. 113, issue 4, 262-274

Abstract: The aim of the study was to compare the effect of a Sport Education-based irregular teaching unit on the high-school students’ physical activity (PA) during school recess. A sample of 91 adolescents (45 girls) aged 13–16 years old met the exclusion criteria. The six classes were cluster-randomly assigned to the Irregular Sport Education group (Sport Education methodology with competitions in recess), Traditional Sport Education group (Sport Education methodology with competitions in Physical Education lessons), or to the control group (non-intervention). The students’ PA during school recess periods were objectively assessed by GT3X accelerometers. The results of the repeated-measures nested analysis of variance showed that the Sport Education-based irregular teaching unit significantly improved the students’ PA during recesses (p

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/00220671.2020.1806014

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