Physical education in the COVID-19 era: remote classes in graduation during the pandemic

ABSTRACT

This research aimed to analyze the impact of remote activities on the Physical Education courses at the University of the Region of Joinville/SC - Univille, during the pandemic period. The method adopted for the investigation was descriptive and transversal. A total of 110 students participated in the study, all of them from the Physical Education undergraduate courses at Univille. As a research instrument a questionnaire was used, organized in the Google Forms.. platform, composed of 12 affirmative questions, in the Likert Scale model for measuring the answers. The questions were organized into three categories Learning, Professional Path and Intrinsic Recognition. The data after being collected were organized for statistical treatment in the SPSS.. 16.0 program. After determining the normality of the data distribution, using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Pearson's correlation test was applied and p-values<0.05 were considered significant. When performing the statistical analysis in each category, the results revealed five significant moderate linear associations. One in the "Learning" domain (p-value<0.002), two in the "Professional Path" (p-value<0.0003 and p-value<0.003), and two in the "Intrinsic Recognition" (p-value<0.005 and p-value<0.002). For the analysis between categories, seven moderate correlations were found. Two in the "Learning and Professional Path" component (p-value<0.004 and p-value<0.002), three in the "Learning and Intrinsic Recognition" (p-value<0.005, p-value<0.004 and p-value<0.001), and two in the "Professional Path and Intrinsic Recognition" with the same value (p-value<0.003). Given the evidence found, it was possible to verify through the predominance of significant linear associations, that remote activities hindered the teaching-learning process for students of Physical Education courses, during the pandemic.