The Effect of Teaching Athletics Courses on the Acquisition of Some Life Skills For Students of the Faculty of Physical Education at Yarmouk University

Abstract

This study aimed to find out the effect of teaching athletics courses on the acquisition of some life skills for the students of the Faculty of Physical Education at Yarmouk University, and to identify if there are any differences in the responses of the students according to the variables of the study: gender, academic level, level of the course). The researcher used the survey approach since it is suitable to the study, and a questionnaire was prepared to collect data. This questionnair consists of (49) items distributed in six areas that include physical and proficiency skills, social skills and teamwork, interaction and communication skills, taking responsibility, thinking and exploration skills, psychological and moral skills. The study was conducted on a sample of (111) male and female students ,(involving (71) male and (40) female), who were deliberately selected from students having finished studying athletics courses. The researcher used statistical treatment through the SPSS program to extract percentages, mathematical averages, and standard deviations and to run (one sample t-test) and (ANOVA) test in order to answer the study questions. The Results of the study showed that there is a significant impact of teaching athletics courses on the acquisition of some life skills among students and that it came with a high degree of evaluation and for all fields of study, where it came in the first place in the field of social skills and teamwork, followed by psychological and moral skills in second place. In the last rank came the thinking and exploration skills. The results also showed that there are no statistically significant differences in the responses of the students due to the variables of gender, academic level, and the level of the course. The researcher recommends the need to employ and integrate life skills based on cognitive economics in the educational curricula and in all educationa stages.