Designing and validating Physical Education and Health Curriculum Model in First level Secondary School with a Cultural - Educational approach

The main purpose of this study was to design a model of physical education and health curriculum for secondary school with a cultural-educational approach. The research method is mixed with the exploratory design which was done in two qualitative-quantitative parts. In the qualitative part, the model was designed and in the quantitative part, the model was validated by descriptive-survey method. In the qualitative section, all available texts and theoretical and research sources were reviewed. Also, 18 specialists in curriculum planning and physical education participated, who were selected by purposive and snowball sampling. Data collection tool was semi-structured interview and content analysis method was used for data analysis. The validity of the data was verified through methods of asking a colleague and checking members. In the quantitative part, to validate the designed model, the opinions of 22 experts in curriculum planning and physical education were used. To evaluate the validity of quantitative content, content validity index (CVI) and content validity ratio (CVR) were used. The content validity ratio was confirmed with 0.72 and the content validity index with 0.90. Reliability was also confirmed by Cronbach's alpha with 0.89. The obtained model consisted of three sections of basics, strategic elements and ten elements of Acker, for each of which some components were presented.