Physical activity and fitness tests of secondary schoolchildren versus their health self-rating survey data

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Teoriya i praktika fizicheskoy kultury №7 2019

Dr.Hab., Professor V.F. Kostyuchenko1
PhD, Associate Professor V.E. Lutkovsky1
PhD S.M. Sukhareva1
1Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sport and Health, St. Petersburg

Physical education and sport service is commonly given a high priority by modern societies, and the governmental education policies are geared to popularize and integrate modern physical education and sport service in the school programs. Sampled for the study were the 11-15 year old schoolchildren who were subject to integrated physical activity and fitness tests to rate the school physical education and health service quality. Standard educational progress tests, however, are often one-sided in fact as they rate only the interim results of the school physical education and health service system and fail to rate the optional ways to success. Questionnaire surveys give an insight to the preferences and physical activity of the teenage school population albeit cannot test the physical education service quality on an integrated basis. The article analyzes the integrated physical test data on the 11-15-year-olds to assess their physical fitness; and rates their attitudes to different school physical education and sport services that were probed by a questionnaire survey.
The study data and analyses showed serious disagreements between the own health ratings by the children and the objective physical fitness test data. Thus the girls were tested more prone to reflection and critical attitude to the own physical fitness and individual traits than the boys, although the objective tests found physical fitness of the sample falling within the normal age-specific range.

Keywords: secondary school age, physical fitness, tests.

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