Flipped Classroom through Edpuzzle® and the sports teaching-learning process in secondary school students: A pilot study

Abstract

The Flipped Classroom (FC) methodology is emerging as a novel educational strategy in the different stages of the educational system that could contribute to sustainable development and quality education. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of the application of a FC model in secondary school students on the acquisition of the conceptual content of a sport, in this case Volleyball, and assess how this intervention methodology can affect learning. The sample consisted of 243 compulsory secondary education students between 12 and 16 years old, using a quantitative method with a quasi-experimental design for the study. The intervention lasted five weeks in which the FC methodology was used to work on the volleyball contents. An objective test of curricular contents about volleyball was used as a data collection instrument. The results show an improvement very significant in learning students after applying the Flipped methodology in Volleyball learning. Furthermore, it is evident that the initial knowledge of the student, in this case, of volleyball, influences the final academic performance shown in an objective test of knowledge. Finally, variables like the number of correct questions during video display or the times that review a stretch of the tutorial appear to be subtly associated with final academic performance (only in girls).