Construction of Test and a Study on Pre Service Physical Education Teachers? Knowledge about First Aid and Primary Injury Management

Physical Education teachers should be knowledgeable and confident in their content knowledge about first aid and primary injury management in to provide order high quality and effective help to the victims. This in turn makes it important to investigate the first aid and primary injury management content knowledge of pre-service Physical Education teachers. The first purpose of this study was to develop a reliable and valid instrument to measure first aid and primary injury management content knowledge of pre-service Physical Education teachers. The second purpose of this study was to examine differences in years of educational experience of the first aid and primary injury management content knowledge of pre-service Physical Education teachers. Content validity was established through consultation with group of experts and reliability through split hales method. The test was found to have a Spearman's reliability coefficient of.965, which is commonly considered an acceptable at low level of internal consistency.