European Journal of Physical Education and Sport

40-49

Authors: Štefan Adamčák, Pavol Bartík, Anna Kozaňáková, Renáta Tomková

The study aims to analyse the opinions of primary school teachers (n=324) on teaching non-traditional sports in terms of the school’s location (urban/rural), as well as in terms of intersexual differences. The research was carried out in the school year 2015/16 and the opinions were collected in a survey and evaluated using the TAP 3 program of Gamo, Banská Bystrica. The majority of teachers (87.96%) hold the view that interest in Physical Education and Sport will increase through the teaching of non-traditional sports. According to the teachers, when it comes to non-traditional sports, both in urban and rural schools, the students are most interested in floorball (boys) and badminton (girls). The most motivating factor for pupils when implementing non-traditional sports is, according to the teachers, the stimulation of skills and abilities through the sports. This answer significantly dominates among all teachers in the urban schools – with a response frequency higher than 60%.

55-60

Authors: Victor Koryahin, OksanaBlavt, Elena Bezgrebelnaya

Control, as an organic component of the basketball players training, provides management of this process and is a factor of its effectiveness. When the fact that control of basketball players speed-strength abilities requires absolutely precise and effective methods of their diagnostics was taken into account, it was determined the necessity of effective control techniques search for obtaining reliable information on the state of basketball players speed-strength abilities. To solve those problems we used methods of analysis and synthesis, analogy, abstraction, formalization, technical modeling and mathematical statistics. The main idea of the research was to intensify the control process of the basketball players speed and strength abilities. For this purpose, we propose to apply our device to determine the speed-strength abilities level development. Along with the definition the distances time overcoming, other important characteristic of the basketball players speed-strength abilities are calculated with use of the mathematical statistics methods. Modified control method for the speed-strength abilities of basketball players was proposed for the first time. Its use contributes increasing ofthe control effectiveness of the basketball players speed and strength abilities by operative and effective analysis and interpretation of quantitative testing information.

68-79

Authors: Chrysi Mavrovounioti, Eirini Argiriadou, Argirios Mavrovouniotis, Anastasia Praskidou, Alexandros Kansizoglou, Ioannis Proios, Fotios Mavrovouniotis

The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of the participation ofstudents with special needs in a health education program for injuries prevention. Ten students of secondary education with mental retardation, aged 17.63+2.018 years, were separated randomly to an intervention group who participated in a 10-week health education program for injuries prevention and a control group who, at the same period, did not attend any extra lesson except the defined ones from the Ministry of Education. Before and after the 10-week period all the students, from both the intervention and the control group, filled in the same questionnaires in order to collect information about their injuries, their experience concerning them, as well their knowledge, attitude and behavior towards injuries. For data analysis, descriptive analysis and the chi square test (x2) of the SPSS ver. 17.0 for windows was used.By processing the data, it was shown that the majority of the students (70 %) have an injury experience, either at home (57.1 %) or at school (28.6 %). From the injuries at school, a very significant proportion (38.6 %) occurred during the break, while 32.8 % of the students’ injuries occurred in the corridor. In addition, after participating in the 10-week health education program, the students of the intervention group, acquired knowledge regarding possible dangers, understood that they should not run in the school property, that they should not step or run on wet floor, as well as that they should not push others. They also learned how to use electrical appliances and cleaning agents of household equipment properly, and that they should be careful for themselves and for their peers in order to prevent injuries. Likewise, no difference in the control group was observed. Furthermore, the x2 test proved a very significant effect of the students’ participation in the health education program regarding injuries’ prevention, the knowledge and the right attitude and behavior towards it (Pearson x2= 4.286-6.667, p<0.05, Cramer’s V= 0.655-0.816). Consequently, the implementation of health education programs for the prevention of injuries at students of secondary education with special needs is very important because through them students perceive possible risks and how they should act and behave in certain situations in order not to expose themselves and others to dangers and also prevent injuries.