RT Journal Article
T1 Smartphone applications for physical activity promotion from physical education
A1 Gil-Espinosa, Francisco Javier
K1 Programas de aplicación
AB Smartphone applications (apps) are thought to be an adequate instructional strategynot only to improve the quality of the teaching in physical education (PE), but alsoto efectively promote leisure-time physical activity (PA) of adolescent students inthis context. Although the use of smartphone apps has been generalized in PE, little is known about the curricular approach of smartphone apps to be implementedby teacher to teach specifc curricular contents in PE lessons. Therefore, the aimof this research was threefold: a) to conduct a systematic search for smartphoneapps focused on PA and sport; b) to assess the features, content and quality of everyincluded smartphone app; and c) to analyze the relationships between every selectedapp and the secondary PE curriculum. Systematic searches were completed onGoogle Play Store from January 2021 to March 2021. Apps were included whenthey met: main goal focused on PA and sport; permitted use by underage; they arefree; user scores of at least 4. The app selection process was carried out by several reviewers and concordance measures were estimated. Additionally, an appquality assessment was independently conducted by three reviewers. A total of 18apps focused on PA were included. Particularly, eight apps were suitable for ftness,health and quality of life curricular content; two for sports content; four for bodyexpression content; and four apps for outdoor PA content. The mean quality scorewas 4.00. Apps could be helpful for teachers to implement the secondary PE curriculum and efectively promote PA among adolescent students.
PB Springer
YR 2022
FD 2022-05-19
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/24549
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/24549
LA eng
NO Gil-Espinosa, F.J., Nielsen-Rodríguez, A., Romance, R. et al. Smartphone applications for physical activity promotion from physical education. Educ Inf Technol (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-022-11108-2
NO Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature.Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málaga / CBUA. Rafael Burgueño is, specifcally, supported by a “Margarita Salas” postdoctoral fellowship (grant number: RR_A_2021_02) from the SpanishMinistry of Universities. Adriana Nielsen-Rodríguez is supported by “Formación del Profesorado Universitario” grants from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (Spain), grant number FPU17/01554.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
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