Developing an Instructional Unit in Vocational Education Curriculum, based on the International Standards of Nutrition and Sports, and Investigating its Effectiveness on Improving the Physical Self-Concept among Eighth Grade Female Students in Jordan

Abstract

The aim of this study was to identify the effectiveness of a developed Instructional Unit Based on International Standards in Nutrition and Sports and Examine its Effectiveness on Improving the Physical Self-Concept Among Eighth Grade Female Students in Jordan. The students were selected from the eighth grade students in the first Secondary university schools –Femal- in the capital Amman during the Second semester of the academic year 2017/2018. The researchers identified the private schools that include two divisions of the eighth grade and chose one of them. One of the two divisions was randomly assigned to be an experimental group (26) and the other to be a control group (29) students. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, the measure of the self-concept of the body was composed of (24) items. An Instructional Unit was developed in the vocational education curriculum based on international standards in nutrition and sports to measure its effectiveness in improving the concept of the physical self. The developed unit consisted of (8) international standards in nutrition and sport, where (36) outcomes were derived, and were implemented in (20) Forty-five-minute lessons.
 
 The results showed a statistically significant effect on the developed unit based on the global standards in nutrition and sport. The level of the self-concept of the students in the experimental group was higher than the students of the control group.