ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS' MOTIVATION FOR PHYSICAL CULTURE CLASSES DURING REMOTE LEARNING

Abstract

Motivation for physical activity is a special state of the individual, aimed at achieving the optimal level of physical fitness and working capacity. In the new circumstances, the main goal of the discipline "Physical Education" during distance learning in wartime is to form a healthy, harmoniously developed personality.The purpose of the study is to assess the structure of students' motivations for physical education classes during distance learning.Using a specially designed questionnaire in Google.forms, students' attitudes towards physical activity, movement preferences, and motives for engaging in physical education and sports were determined. The survey was conducted among 80 students aged 17–19 at a higher education institution in Sumy After the full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine, students began to engage in physical education and sports less (66.25%). Only 33.75% of students indicate that they began to engage in physical education and sports more compared to 2022.The distribution of the structure of physical education and sports classes indicates that students prefer choreography (22.5%), sports games (21.25%), fitness (8.75%), athletics (8.75%), martial arts (7.5%), artistic gymnastics (2.5%) and other sports, including swimming, tennis, etc. (11.25%).The structure of students' motives: the leading ones are health promotion, positive emotions, and the opportunity to move; significant motives are the desire to increase strength abilities to express oneself, the development of will, games and entertainment during classes; potential motives are the opportunity to demonstrate leadership qualities, an assessment of the academic discipline, and the example of a teacher.