COMPARATIVE STUDY CONCERNING THE LEVEL OF THE PUPILS’ COGNITIVE COMPETENCES IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION, PRIMARY SCHOOL

Abstract

The research determines the contribution of the physical education lesson concerning the development of the cognitive sphere of the fourth grade, as a finish moment of the primary school, by comparing the classes where the didactic process was achieved by the teacher (2005) and by the physical education teacher (2009) and identifies the relations between the objectives of the physical education and the objectives of the cognitive education.

From the evaluation’s function view point it is consist that 36,20 % from questioned pupils of the 2009 graduates and 63,8 % from 2005 graduates have gaps concerning the evaluated cognitive sphere, all these being demonstrated in the domain of the retained knowledge transfer from a discipline to another, or in the adaption of the already obtained knowledge.