The Measurement of School Sports Atmosphere and the Relation Between Middle School Students Scientific Creativity

Journal: Journal of Higher Education Research DOI: 10.32629/jher.v1i3.195

Peng Hou, Shaoyong Yu

Department of Physical Education, Xidian University

Abstract

Purpose — This paper builds the structure dimension of the school sports atmosphere, develops the corresponding measuring tool, discusses the relation between the school sports atmosphere and the scientific creativity of middle school students. Methods — Research methods combining theory with empirical evidence, including interview survey method, psychological measurement method, mathematical statistics, etc. Conclusion — The school sports atmosphere covers 13 items in three dimensions: self-identification, teacher-student trust, and school environment. The overall Cronbachα value of the scale is 0.865. The two dimensions of self-identification and teacher-student trust can significantly positively predict the product improvement ability, experimental design ability and technical product design ability of middle school students' scientific creativity. School environment can positively predict the seven dimensions of scientific creativity of middle school students.

Keywords

school sports atmosphere, middle school students, scientific creativity

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Xi’an Social Science Fund Planning Fund (project approval number: 17T33)

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