The current study aimed at exploring the availability of the 21 st century skills in the sport and health for all curriculum designed and introduced for the undergraduate university students in Al-Balqaa University, Jordan. The study adopted the descriptive analytical design. The study analyzed the objectives, activities and the assessment questions of the sport and health for all curriculums through using a researcher-developed checklist that included indicators for three major skills: the learning and innovations skills, information and technology skills, and life and work skills. The results of the study revealed that learning and innovation skills (59.73%) are available to a moderate degree, the life and work skills (38.38%) are available to a low degree, whereas the information and technology skills are available to a very low degree (1.87%). The results of the current study revealed that the mean score for the availability of the 21 st century skills in the sport and health for all curriculum designed for the undergraduate students in Al-Balqaa university was 33.33%, which is a low degree of availability. The study concluded that there was a significant shortage of including the 21 st century skills in the sport and health for all curriculums designed and introduced for the undergraduate university students in Al-Balqaa University, Jordan. The study recommended performing a thorough revision of the curriculum content and improving the content through integrating more of the 21 st century skills in order to enable the students cope with the challenges of the 21 st century.
The present study aimed to identify the association between emotional blackmail and college adjustment among warned female students at Al-Balqaa Applied University. It was a descriptive correlational study that included recruiting all warned female students at Al-Balqaa Applied University (BAU) (n=357) during the beginning of the second semester of the academic year 2019/2020. The study adopted the emotional abuse scale developed by Neil Jacobson and John Gottman. The questionnaire consisted of 28 items and the college adjustment test (CAT) developed by Pennebaker (2013). The test comprised 19 items. The collected data were analyzed statistically using the Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) (v. 26 IBM Corporation). The study’s findings showed that warned female students had a high level of emotional blackmail (2.90±0.799). In addition, the results indicated that there is a low level of college adjustment among the warned female students (3.62±0.736). Finally, the study showed a strong and significant inverse correlation between emotional blackmail and college adjustment among warned female students at Al-Balqa Applied University. Therefore, the study recommended increasing the students’ awareness and knowledge about coping strategies to overcome the effects of emotional blackmail and increase their college adjustment.
Aim: The present study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of self-questioning strategy in improving some basketball skills among seventh grade female students in Amman, Jordan. Method: This was a quasi-experimental study. The study was conducted in the period between 6 th of January 2019 and 14 th of February 2019. The study included a random sample of 36 students from the seventh grade. The participants were randomized equally into a control group (n=24, received traditional teaching) and an experimental group (n=24, instructed through self-questioning strategy). The study used the anthropometric measurements and valid and reliable skills pre and posttests to identify any significant effect of the self-questioning strategy on the shooting, passing and dribbling basketball skills among the study participants. Results:The results of the study showed that there were significant statistical differences at significance level (α≤0.05) in the mean scores of the shooting skill (t=6.0684, p=0.000), passing skill (t=4.1412, p=0.000) and dribbling skill (t=2.4581, p=0.0178) between the control group and the experimental group in favor of the experimental group referred to the use of self-questioning strategy. Conclusion:The study concluded that self-questioning strategy is an effective strategy in improving shooting, passing and dribbling basketball skills. The study recommends conducting further research studies to support the research-based evidence regarding the effectiveness of self-questioning strategy on improving the basic sport skills among school students.
The study aimed at investigating the degree of availability of crisis management elements in the boards of directors of Jordanian football sport clubs in light of the Corona virus pandemic . The study adopted the descriptive cross-sectional research approach. The sample of the study comprised of (208) members of clubs boards of directors. The study utilized a 5-domain. The findings revealed that the degree of availability of crisis management elements in the boards of directors of Jordanian football sports clubs in light of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic was at a moderate degree. In addition, there were no statistically significant differences in the degree of availability of crisis management elements in Football sport clubs' boards of directors referred to the variables (administrative experience, educational qualification, team rank). The study recommended the necessity of activating the role of crisis management elements in sports bodies and institutions and the need to enact legislation and laws that oblige members of sports club boards of directors to obtain training courses in the field of crisis management.
This study aimed to build standard levels to assess the level of some elements of physical fitness related to health among the juniors of Al-Faisali Football Club Academy, as well as to identify the differences in the tests due to the variable of height, weight and age. The researcher used a set of standardized tests that have a high degree of validity and reliability to measure the physical fitness elements of the subject of the study. The sample included (123) young players registered in the academy. The study reached to build standard levels for the juniors of the Al-Faisaly Football Club Academy, as well as the results of the study showed that there are differences between the averages of tests of explosive power, agility, transitional speed and grip strength of the right and left hand due to the variables of age, height and weight, while there were no differences in the 1000m running tests and the 30-second stomach repeat test due to the study variables. The study recommends building standard levels to measure the elements of fitness for other games, specifically for juniors. Received: 7 December 2021 / Accepted: 26 January 2022 / Published: 5 March 2022
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