Análise das avaliações físicas realizadas por professores de educação física de Uruguaiana/RS: objetivos e barreiras para sua aplicação no contexto escolar

Abstract

Physical assessments (PA) are understood as methodologies to help the teacher to identify how his student is evolving in relation to the stimuli proposed during his classes. In this way, the student receives adequate information to help him/her regarding the maintenance and improvement of behaviors directly linked to a healthy lifestyle. In fact, the variables of Physical fitness and health can be understood through the evaluation of anthropometric, metabolic and neuromotor variables; thus, PA has been used to determine a true association between health and physical fitness. In this sense, the work aimed to investigate the PA used by physical education teachers (PE) from the public network of Uruguaiana/RS, as well as their objectives and possible difficulties for application in the school space. This cross-sectional, descriptive and exploratory study, with a qualitative and quantitative approach, included PE teachers, working in the Final Years of Elementary School, from municipal and state public schools, in the city of Uruguaiana-RS. The teachers answered a questionnaire, via googleforms, created by the researchers, consisting of 25 questions, 21 closed and 4 open. The instrument included questions related to the teachers' professional profile; factors that complicate teaching; importance of performing the PA; anthropometric assessments and physical tests used; difficulties in carrying out PA in the school environment; objectives and themes in which they relate the results. Quantitative data were analyzed using simple frequency and percentage and qualitative data were analyzed using Bardin's content analysis. Regarding the results, 26 PE teachers were included in the study, in which we showed that there was a slight predominance of males (53.8%), most of them have specialization (65.4%), in the area of school PE (27 .7%), with teaching time of up to 15 years (38.5%). Regarding physical tests, 22 mentioned that they perform aerobic and flexibility tests in some way. However, most of them (54.5%) only use BMI to assess students' body composition. Among the difficulties, the lack of appropriate material provided by the school (54.5%) and by the teacher himself (31.9%) prevailed. As for the objective, most teachers (77.3%) carry out assessments in order to identify the health conditions and physical qualities of the students. Based on the results found, suggested that a need to build strategies aimed at the continuing education of PE teachers on the subject, as well as greater attention from managers, in order to reduce the deficiency of the structure and physical resources, to subsidize this evaluative work at school. Finally, it is suggested that such alternatives can minimize the difficulties encountered in this process.