By means of questionnaire survey, the authors studied the innovation ability of free physical education (PE) normal students and its affecting factors. Exploratory factor analysis indicates that the innovation ability of free PE normal students contains such 5 dimensions as PE equipment and teaching tool innovation, PE textbook innova-tion, PE teaching innovation, PE extracurricular knowledge expansion and innovation, and PE research application innovation. Confirmatory factor analysis indicates that the 5-factor structural model has a good degree of fitting, and that free PE normal student in...
