Gender and Age Differences in Attitudes of Serbian Pupils toward Physical Education Lessons and their Preferences Regarding Lesson Organisation/Spolne i dobne razlike u stavovima srbijanskih učenika prema nastavi Tjelesne kulture i njihovim preferencijama

Abstract

This research has been conducted with the aim of evaluating gender and age differences in attitudes of Serbian students toward Physical Education lessons and their preferences regarding lesson organisation. The sample of 542 students was divided into 4 subsamples: 140 female primary school pupils (13.51±0.41) and 129 male primary school pupils (13.47±0.33) from grade seven, and 134 secondary school female pupils (16.49±0.36) and 139 secondary school male pupils (16.44±0.37) from grade two. For the purpose of the research, the subjects voluntarily filled in two standardised questionnaires. ANOVA was used to determine significant differences in attitudes toward Physical Education lessons between pupils of different age and of different gender, while a Chi-square test was used to determine significant differences in pupils' preferences regarding Physical Education lesson organisation. The results showed that primary school pupils had significantly more positive attitudes toward Physical Education lessons in relation to secondary school pupils, and that younger pupils prefer gender-based organisation of lessons which changes with respect to age and gender.

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“…As for the "Web of Science" database, one of the important facts is that two researchers who were not in the top 10 researchers last year found their place among them, compared to the research conducted by Vukasevic et al [2]. These are Bojan Masanovic, who has published 10 papers in journals indexed in SCI, SSCI or SCIE databases in the last two years [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13] and Ivan Vasiljevic, who published three papers in the same period in the journals that are indexed in the mentioned databases [14,15,16].Along with them, Jovan Gardasevic is making extremely visible progress, having published nine papers in the last two years in journals indexed in SCI, SSCI or SCIE databases [11,12,13,14,15,17,18,19,20]. Montenegrin researchers in the field of sports sciences are one of the few in the entire scientific community of Montenegro who have managed to publish scientific papers in even the most prestigious journals of today.…”

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