Elementary school students’ distance learning period: motor activity survey

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PhD, Associate Professor L.A. Kadutskaya1, 2
Dr. Hab., Professor L.N. Voloshina1
Dr. Hab., Professor V.L. Kondakov1
PhD, Associate Professor E.N. Kopeikina1
1Belgorod State National Research University, Belgorod
2Belgorod Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia named after I. D. Putilin, Belgorod

Objective of the study was to analyze the elementary school students’ motor activity in the distance learning period using an online questionnaire survey.
Methods and structure of the study. The elementary school students’ motor activity in the distance learning period profiling online questionnaire survey was run using a special interactive questionnaire form of our own design including open and confidential questions. We sampled for the study the elementary school students’ families (n=343) from Lyceum No. 32 and Secondary Schools No. 7, 17, 33, 35, 36, 42 and 50 in Belgorod city. The online questionnaire survey was intended to profile the opinions of elementary school students’ families on their children’s actual motor activity, leisure-time preferences, family roles in the motor activity control and the actual elementary school students’ progress needs.
Results and conclusion. The online questionnaire survey data of elementary school students families and analysis geared to profile the motor activity preferences and family roles in the children’s motor activity control found that in the digital distance learning period during the COVID-19 pandemic the elementary school students tend to neglect the healthy time limitations for home works at computer – partially due to the children being overloaded by educational tasks and, hence, doomed for motor inactivity in limited spaces. The survey data and analyses demonstrate the need for special efforts to efficiently encourage, control and manage the elementary school students’ motor activity in the distance learning period.

Keywords: motor activity, elementary school students, distance learning, online questionnaire survey.

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