Original scientific paper
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIALLY PROGRAMMED KINESIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY ON MOTOR AREA STRUCTURAL CHANGES OF MALE PUPILS AGED 6 TO 8
Josip Babin
; Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Split, Croatia1
Tonči Bavčević
Ivan Prskalo
; Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb, Croatia2
Abstract
The effects of two different kinesiological treatments were analysed during one academic year on a sample of 325 pupils from the first
grade of elementary schools. For the purposes of this research, the pupils were divided into a control (N=140) and experimental group (n=185). The control group attended regular physical education lessons, while the experimental group was subjected to an experimental kinesiological programme based on elements from track-and-field, sport gymnastics, games and global preparatory
exercises. Between two points of measurements, both groups showed significant quantitative progress in the area of motor abilities. The positive effects of the experimental treatment were reflected in the comprehensive quantitative progress of all motor variables, simultaneously maintaining the structural coexistence
of the motor system, in other words, the structural changes were expressed to a lesser degree. Since the area of motor abilities represents one of the vital areas of the anthropological status and its development, which is an important task of kinesiological education, the need arises for constant quality improvement in the modality of physical exercise. Therefore, it is important to establish criteria
for the validation of kinesiological treatment and, in determining its success in the transformation of the aimed anthropological features, to evaluate both quantitativeand qualitative, i.e. structural changes, in the relations of the single partial dimensions of the anthropological status.
Keywords
specially programmed physical education lessons; first grade pupils of elementary school; motor abilities, quantitative and qualitative changes
Hrčak ID:
59601
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Publication date:
30.6.2010.
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