Forms of increasing the need-based motivation of students' motor activity for classes based on different levels of physical education options

Abstract

Purpose: to investigate and experimentally substantiate the forms of increasing the need-based motivation of students to engage in physical education in the main institution of a new type based on different modes of motor activity. Materials and methods: in order to identify the structure and features of the need-motivational characteristics of physical culture among students of new-type educational institutions, two questionnaires were conducted among 104 students of 10 classes of secondary schools and lyceums in Slovyansk. Questionnaires were conducted at the beginning and at the end of the study. School students formed the control group, and lyceum students formed the experimental group. Results: no age differences between the analyzed groups were found, in the process of the questionnaire, more than half of high school students (54.2%) believe that the number of lessons per week should be increased to three times, 20.0% are inclined to two one-time classes and 25.8% of students would like to increase the number of physical education lessons to four times a week. Among students of secondary schools and lyceums in general, a common regularity of the importance of motives is revealed, however, the values of individual motives differ, sometimes significantly. Conclusions: Experimentally proven promising application in educational institutions of a new type of different-level variants of motor activity of schoolchildren.