Opinions of Pupils and Teachers of Primary Schools in Slovakia on Thematic Unit — Sports Games in Physical and Sport Education

Abstract

The study aimed to analyse and compare the opinions of selected groups of pupils (boys and girls) and teachers (men and women) of the second primary education stage around Slovakia, which was based on the thematic unit - Sports games, realized within the teaching of physical and sport education. The listed study analyses and compares the opinions of 3606 pupils (boys and girls) and 1219 teachers (men and women) of the second primary education stage around Slovakia, based on the thematic unit - sports games, realized within the teaching of physical and sport education. The survey was realized from 2016 to 2018 while using the questionnaire method. What is more, the survey results were evaluated in terms of the intersexual differences (chi-square test) and correlation relationships of selected questions. We found out that the most popular thematic unit - sports games, is higher from the point of view of pupils and teachers, with the frequency of more than 57 %. The least popular thematic unit in both groups was the gymnastic exercises (44.01 %). Within the teaching of the thematic unit - Sports games, the pupils and teachers preferred team sports rather than individual sports, while the most popular sports game was football in boys and volleyball in girls. The survey groups identified the rules of basketball (44.19 %) as the most difficult within the teaching of sports games. In terms of the statistical significance of intersexual differences of survey groups of pupils (boys and girls), we noticed the significant differences in pupils (boys and girls) within the seven questions (p < 0.01, p < 0.05). In two cases, we did not notice the significant differences in groups of teachers (the most popular thematic unit and preferences of popular team sports and individual sports). We saw a very high correlation between the most popular sports games and the difficulty of rules within the survey groups within the survey.