Comparative analysis of the results of the Republican physical education Olympiad, 2022, 2023 editions
Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The Physical Education Republican Olympiad is an important component of the instructive-educational process that allows both teachers and students to evaluate the learning results but also the level of intellectual, physical, and functional training in relation to the best students in the country. Participation in this large-scale event that is held annually generates a multitude of positive effects on the students' personality: it develops the participant's positive behavioral qualities, forms team action capacities and integration into society, brings real success to the best students, bears a socializing effect and of communication, etc. School competitions and Olympiads are held in accordance with the annual program on activities to support pupils capable of high performances and aim to achieve the following objectives: - Development of the competitive spirit, volitional, physical and intellectual qualities of the pupils; - Stimulating pupils' interest in the discipline of Physical Education; - Identifying, stimulating and promoting pupils capable of high performances; - Developing the skills to mobilize the will, the intellectual faculties and the competitive spirit; - Favoring the exchange of opinions/experience, with reference to the study subjects; - Support and encouragement of teachers in work activities with pupils capable of high performances. The purpose of the article consists in analyzing and interpreting of the final results obtained by students in the Physical Education Republican Olympiad, editions of the years 2022, 2023. Research objectives: 1. The study of specialized literature regarding the forms of practicing physical education and sports in school. 2. Analysis and interpretation of the results obtained by the pupils at the Physical Education Republican Olympiad, 2022, 2023 editions (ninth, twelfth grade). Research methods: 1. - theoretical analysis and generalization of scientific-methodical literature data; 2. - observation; 3. - the mathematical-statistical method of data processing; 4. - the comparative data method. Research results. Starting from the above-mentioned, we conducted a study that provides the analysis of the results obtained by the pupils in the 9th and 12th grades (girls and boys) in the Physical Education Republican Olympiad during the years 2022 and 2023. The Physical Education Republican Olympiad in 2022 included 4 tests, and the one in 2023 - 5 competition tests: the theory test; general endurance test - running 800 m (girls), 1000 m (boys); gymnastics test - combination of acrobatic elements; sports games test; general physical training test (held only in 2023). In total, more than 1300 results of participants from all districts and municipalities of the Republic of Moldova were examined. Thus, after determining the score obtained by the participants in the theoretical test, a low level of achievement of the degree of training/development of the general/conceptual and special cognitive skills of the pupils was established. However, in 2023, participants from both classes demonstrated an improvement in scores compared to 2022, which implies the idea that teachers and pupils began to have a much more responsible attitude towards the preparation process for the competition, drawing increased attention to the cognitive aspect reflected in the curricular contents of the Physical Education discipline. Carefully examining the results obtained by the competitors in the general endurance test (800m - girls and 1000m - boys) we conclude that in both classes the best performances were highlighted in the year 2022. This fact is due, in our opinion, the conditions in which the contest was held, namely the fact that in 2022 the test was held at the stadium, and in 2023 the students competed on varied terrain. Referring to the correctness of performing acrobatic combinations, it can be stated that the participants confirmed a better level of training at the secondary school level in 2023. Thus, the average results obtained by girls and boys from the 9th grade in the Gymnastics test shows the best scores at the last edition of the Olympiad (8.85 and 8.25 points respectively). On the other hand, in the Gymnastics exam, in 2022, both female and male 12th grade students managed to obtain a higher average result, this being 7.10 points (girls) and 7.21 points (boys) compared to the year 2023 when the following values were obtained (6.29 points for girls and 7.13 points for boys). Following the analysis and interpretation of the results of the test of sports games, 3 component indexes were evaluated: the accumulated score, the penalties obtained and the time needed to complete the test. Thus, following the totalization of the data obtained for the 9th and 12th grades, both boys and girls demonstrated good sports results. However, in the year 2023 the average score obtained by the participants is higher compared to the year 2022, and the mistakes made by the pupils are less. Conclusions and recommendations. 1. The Republican Olympiad represents an important component of the instructive-educational process in physical education that generates a multitude of positive effects on pupils and teachers; 2. The results of the study proved a progressive improvement in the results of the Olympiads in theory tests in the year 2023 constituting an average between 33.95 and 36.71 points compared to the year 2022 - in which they were between 24.16 and 29, 88 points. 3. The practical tests did not show major differences in the results of the competitions in the years 2022 and 2023.
DOI: 10.52449/soh23.33
Author: Carolina Moga
Language: English
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4411018487