Educational issues, Vol. 2 No. 3-4, 2019.
Preliminary communication
Application of Modern Technology for the Evaluation of Balance in Children of Lower Forms of Primary School
Sanja Ljubičić
orcid.org/0000-0003-3311-009X
Biljana Trajkovski
; Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Rijeka
Ljubomir Antekoloić
orcid.org/0000-0002-9614-9138
; Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb
Abstract
In the world of fast progress of information and communication technology, teachers have a responsibility to use technologies. Technological advances do not shy away from being applied in Physical Education classes because quality diagnostics of motor skills is the foundation of planning and programming transformation processes. The purpose of this paper is to determine whether there is a difference between boys and girls in expressing static balance on an individual (unilateral) leg of the dominant leg (reflex leg) on the application of modern technology as an example of good practice. 80 children in lower forms of primary school (38 boys and 42 girls, 7-10 years of age) participated in this research. Measurements of the static unilateral balance were carried out using the Gyko Inertial System (Microgate, Bolzano, Italy). The unilateral test of static balance was performed, with three attempts in 20 seconds. The following variable was total body trajectory in the unilateral balance test and morphological variables: body weight and body height. For all variables, the baseline descriptive parameters were calculated and the non-parametric method of the Mann-Whitney U-test was used to determine the statistical significance between boys and girls. Data analysis showed a statistically significant difference between boys and girls in the unilateral balance test. Girls showed a lower overall variability, i.e., smaller body trajectories than boys. The research results point to significant gender differences in the performance of the unilateral balance tests in children aged 7-10 years in favor of better results in girls. Further research should include an analysis of a larger sample of older children, closer to puberty.
Keywords
modern technology; balance; early school-aged children
Hrčak ID:
232089
URI
Publication date:
23.12.2019.
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