INDIVIDUALISED PHYSICAL CONDITION AS MEANS TO PROMOTE STUDENTS’ HEALTH IN LONG TERM PERIOD

TitleINDIVIDUALISED PHYSICAL CONDITION AS MEANS TO PROMOTE STUDENTS’ HEALTH IN LONG TERM PERIOD
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2009
AuthorsJansone, R, Vazne, Z
JournalProblems of Education in the 21st Century
Volume11
Start Page51-59
Date PublishedMay/2009
Type of ArticleOriginal article
ISSN1822-7864
Other NumbersICID: 886203
Keywordsindividualized approach, sport education
Abstract

The insufficient parameters of students’ physical and functional condition at schools in Latvia make us study their causes and work out strategies to improve students’ health. It creates the necessity to realize consequently the aims forwarded in society health policy documents, considering the quality of the means used to reach the aims. Thus, the aim of the study was the development of strategic formulations of the sports standard of the secondary education correction. The results of the grade 11 students (N = 254) were analyzed in the research. The following methods of the research were applied: testing, anthropometry, mathematical statistics. Strategic changes in the sports standard of secondary education in Latvia, directed to the use of separate kinds of sport as the means to facilitate students’ health in sports classes have been developed. In the assessment of the subject the qualitative criteria of knowledge, skills and individual attitude have been included. To assess a student’s bio-motor ability standard control exercise tables are replaced by individual result progress assessment.

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