Evaluation of the motor training of high school students

Abstract

In their didactic activity, over time, educators observe different phenomena that manifest themselves at the level of the groups of students with whom they come into contact, and many times, systematic observations clearly create a certain trend of evolution in the eyes of the professional. In order to generalize and formulate clear hypotheses or conclusions, it is necessary that these observations are also analyzed from the perspective of statistical data, which give us the dimension of the observed phenomena, in much more exact terms than those formulated on the basis of daily observations. The declining trend in motivation to practice physical exercise is one that many specialists have noticed, globally, which provides a star-ting point for the analysis carried out in this article. The effects of the lack of motivation are also correlated with the statistics provided by the World Health Organization (WHO), which indicate an increase in the obesity rate among children and ado-lescents, its causes being multiple, among which the lack of physical exercise being one of the most important, along with inadequate nutrition. The need to identify intervention tools to increase the level of motivation to practice physical exercise is a pressing one, but the intervention will be based on clear statistical data, indicating the size of the phenomenon, the levels at which it manifests itself, as well as the effects among children and adolescents. The present study aims to bring new data in this regard, with a view to dimensioning and realizing the design of an intervention methodology to change these trends.