Exploring Higher Vocational Physical Education Practices for Enhancing Health Literacy: Implementation Pathways and Effectiveness Evaluation in Diverse Student Populations
Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Study design: Clinical Trial
Abstract: To address teaching challenges arising from the diversification of higher vocational student populations and advance physical education objectives towards enhancing health literacy, this study designed and implemented an intelligent teaching system integrating machine learning-based diagnostic tools, digital fitness platforms, and data-driven dynamic adjustment mechanisms. Taking a higher vocational institution as its practical setting, it developed and implemented a three-tiered teaching pathway—‘Common Foundation–Categorised Development–Personalised Expansion’—aimed at exploring systematic, technology-empowered solutions for improving students' physical health literacy amidst diverse student backgrounds. Employing a mixed-methods approach augmented by computer-based data collection and analysis technologies, the programme's implementation and outcomes were evaluated over one academic year through intelligent questionnaires (AI-driven content adaptation and data sorting), physical fitness assessments supported by motion sensors and video analysis, digital behavioural tracking (via custom-built fitness management platforms), and in-depth interviews involving 582 students. Findings indicate this technology-integrated pathway significantly elevates students' health literacy across four dimensions—cognitive knowledge, practical skills, behavioural engagement, and attitudinal beliefs—particularly demonstrating a marked ‘value-added effect’ for students with weaker foundational skills. This effectively narrows competency gaps between diverse student cohorts. The pathway's success hinges on establishing a computer-supported dynamic support loop of ‘intelligent diagnosis–algorithm-aided design–digitalised implementation–data-driven evaluation–real-time adjustment’, achieving an organic integration of differentiated teaching and scaled cultivation. This provides an actionable, verifiable practical reference for technology-enhanced physical education reform in higher vocational education.
Author: Xianhua Hu
Institution: Chongqing Vocational Institute of Engineering
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7208740610