| Abstrakt: |
At the times of reduced physical activity (also PA), physical education (also PE) as a school subjects becoming the only PA during the week for many children leading to their lower motor skills (stamina, speed and strength). The quality of PE classes ensured by the teacher is one of the decisive factors in whether children will voluntarily engage in PA in the future. Therefore, the future PE teachers should not only be prepared by the university with regard to knowledge, but they should also master a series of skills related to various physical activities. We hereby report a longitudinal study in future PE education teachers' performance. The purpose of this longitudinal study was to compare the long-term performance of university students in the field of physical education in the practical subject of Athletics. This study includes the measurement of motor abilities and skills of physical education students over 10 years. We tested the level of PE students' motor skills in 4 athletic events: 100-metre sprint, 1,500-metre men's run (800-metre women's run), long jump, and shot-put. The presented study was performed using data of 424 students in the field of physical education at the University of Ostrava in the Czech Republic. They were anonymous data of 154 women and 270 men from 2009 to 2018. The biggest decrease was 1 second between the first and the third period for the female students' performance in the sprint. There were statistically and practically significant differences in the results of three out of four selected athletic events (100-metre sprint, 1,500-metre men's run, or 800-metre women's run, long jump) in the men and women categories. Only one event (shot-putting) has not statistically and practically significant differences in the students' performance in both categories. We conclude that the performance of physical education students is decreasing in speed, endurance, and technical skills but they have still strength. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
