The effectiveness of the executive programs of the physical education curriculum on the cognitive, physical and skill outcomes of first-year middle school students

Abstract

Curricula are the means by which the educational system can achieve what it hopes for at any stage of education in terms of educational, social and health goals and purposes. Thus, the physical education curriculum and its various activities have become of great importance to evaluate. The executive programs of the physical education curriculum always require continuous evaluation to identify the effectiveness of these programs in achieving the goals set in achieving the needs of students practicing school sports activities. The essence of evaluation from a systems perspective is an important process, as it is considered primarily in the direction of the feedback path and that it is considered the first practical attempt to measure the effectiveness and impact of executive programs. The procedures of this research were represented in the quasi-experimental approach for one group, i.e. pre-measurement and post-measurement. The research community consisted of first-year middle school boys in the schools of Al-Asabaa city, numbering (1780) students, distributed over 25 schools for the academic year 2024-2025 AD, and the outcomes that the researcher chose were cognitive, physical and cognitive outcomes. After discussing and interpreting the research results, the following conclusions were reached. 1- The content of the executive programs had a positive impact by creating a significant change in favor of the post-measurement in cognitive outcomes, amounting to 88% compared to the pre-measurement. 2- The content of the executive programs had a positive effect by creating statistically significant changes in favor of the post-measurement in the following physical outcomes. 3-The content of the executive programs did not cause significant changes between the two measurements in the level of speed and balance among the students of the research sample. 4- The content of the executive programs achieved statistically significant differences between the pre- and post-measurements in the skill outcomes.