What motives induce to choose Physical Education as an optative subject at Post-Compulsory Secondary Education 2nd grade?

摘要

Many Physical Education characteristics make it the axis of numerous researches, nevertheless, nowadays the information about what induces Post-Compulsory 1 st grade students to the will of receiving Physical Education during their next grade is reduced. This research has designed an ad hoc questionnaire to gather this information through a 6 motives proposal; furthermore, it has also been analysed should this choice is conditioned by sociodemographic variables like sex, academic level and the level of physical activity practised assessed with Test Corto Krece Plus questionnaire. In order to that, 76 students of two public High Schools completed these two questionnaires in their respective educational centres. The attached results show that the two main marked motives are the leaning towars sports and Physical Education fun. Sex, as well as academic level and the level of physical activity practised are factors that significantly influence the motives that base this choice.