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Los escolares con TDAH se caracterizan por presentar dificultades relacionadas con una amplia gama de problemas psicosociales en términos de motivación para aprender en las clases de Educación Física. El objetivo del presente estudio, fue analizar el efecto de las clases de Educación Física (EF) habituales, durante 12 semanas, sobre la motivación d...
Cuál es la importancia de la Educación Física para el alumnado con TDAH?. ¿A qué dificultades se enfrentan los alumnos con TDAH en el ámbito social y académico? En este libro ofrece al profesorado de Educación Física recomendaciones de como favorecer con sus ejercicios físicas a los escolares con estas dificultades. Prólogo del Dr. Rafa Guerrero (P...
A entional neurodiversity is evidenced in the majority of current schools. The role that physical education plays for the inclusion of students with a entional problems in the school is quite relevant. This essay aims to show the effectiveness of sports and physical exercise on the core symptoms of schoolchildren and adolescents with a ention defic...
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An important aspect of achievement goals is the persistence and determination that the person possesses in order to achieve it. Spain does not have an adequate instrument for its measurement. First, this article had the aim of adapt and validate the Motivational Persistence Scale of Constantin et al. in a Spanish population and athlete...
This study examined the effect of a 12-weeks curriculum-based PE (Physical Education) program on social preferences for learning in PE in Spanish secondary students with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and typical development (TD). The sample consisted of 13 students with ADHD (9 boys and 4 girls, aged 15 years) and 13 students (9 b...
This study examined the effect of a 12-weeks curriculum-based PE (Physical Education) program on social preferences for learning in PE in Spanish secondary students with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and typical development (TD). The sample consisted of 13 students with ADHD (9 boys and 4 girls, aged 15 years) and 13 students (9 b...
Casado, A, Hanley, B, Santos-Concejero, J, and Ruiz-Pérez, LM. World-class long-distance running performances are best predicted by volume of easy runs and deliberate practice of short-interval and tempo runs. J Strength Cond Res 35(9): 2525-2531, 2021-The aim of this novel study was to analyze the effect of deliberate practice (DP) and easy contin...
Esta obra propõe uma nova abordagem para a educação aquática, na qual se aposta a necessidade de mudar e repensar os cenários aquáticos de ensino e desenvolvimento da competência aquática.
Por esse motivo, além de desenvolver o conceito de "competência aquática" e descrever sua evolução no nível comportamental, afetivo e cognitivo, apresenta uma ma...
El propósito de este estudio fue analizar los goles marcados con portero-jugador, y
establecer un perfil de eficacia en función de las variables del juego y situacionales.
Se analizó mediante el software Astrofutsal ® una muestra de 582 goles de 11.446
situaciones de portero-jugador correspondientes a 1200 partidos de la Liga Nacional de Futbol Sal...
The purpose of this study was to analyze the goals scored with flying goalkeepers, and to establish an effectiveness profile according to the variables of the game and the situation. A sample of 582 goals from 11,446 flying goalkeeper situations corresponding to 1200 games of the National Indoor Football League during the 2010 to 2015 seasons were...
Profe, yo no sirvo para la gimnasia" E sta es una frase que la mayoría del profesorado de educación física ha escuchado alguna vez. Quien así se expresa vive con preocupación las clases de Educación Física. Ya es hora de admitir que existen escolares que terminan siendo despreciados porque no saben jugar, por su baja competencia motriz en la clase,...
The purpose of this paper is to explain learning in sports and physical education (PE) from the perspective of enactive and ecological psychology. The learning process is first presented from the enactive perspective, and some relevant notions such as sense-making and sensorimotor schemes are developed. Then, natural learning environments are descr...
El presente texto en tapa blanda presenta 6 lecciones de Psicología del deporte especialmente elaboradas para estudiantes de Ciencias del Deporte y de la Actividad Física.
Estimados lectores y estudiantes, me permito presentar este texto titulado Lecciones de Psicología de la actividad Física y Deporte I. Después de varias décadas dedicado a los menesteres universitarios y profesionales, llega el momento en el que hay que parar y dejar a los demás aquello que a lo largo de todos estos años se ha aprendido. Siempre ex...
A high proportion of children with Attention problems (ADHD) experience motor competence problems. The present study sought to compare the motor competence between a group of ADHD students and a normative sample before and after controlling for motor coordination problems, and check if there are differences between the group with ADHD and the group...
The main purpose of this study was to analyze retrospectively the memories of a group of adults with low skills and the relationships between their memories and their physical education teachers during their school time. Ten adults (7 women and three men) participated in this study, aged between 25 and 56 years that declared to be low skilled durin...
The aim of the present study was to describe and identify the serving performance profiles of medalists during an elite women’s badminton tournament taking notational and temporal variables into account. The sample was composed of the 14 matches (n = 1,052 rallies) played by the three medalists during the 2016 women’s singles Olympic Games badminto...
Segunda edición revisada y aumentada del Texto: Deporte y Aprendizaje.
The aim of this novel research was to compare the amount of systematic training and the different training activities undertaken by elite-standard long-distance runners during their first seven years of systematic training. Participants were divided into three performance groups: world-class Kenyans (N = 19), European-standard Spanish athletes (N =...
The aim of this study was to identify the importance and meaning of goals using the goalkeeper as an outfield player in elite futsal according to critical and situational variables. The sample consisted of 11,446 actions corresponding to 1,325 matches from the 1st division Spanish Futsal League during the seasons from 2010 to 2015. Multinomial logi...
Objectives: The present article aims to (i) critically review and classify the studies on the tennis serve return by the degree of representativeness of the experimental task design, (ii) assess the quality of the studies classified with a high degree of representativeness, (iii) analyze to what extent expert tennis players demonstrate anticipa- to...
Análisis de las relaciones entre el Trastorno en el Desarrollo de la Coordinación (TDC/DCD) y el Trastorno por Déficit de Atención e Hiperactividad (TDAH) en la edad escolar Resumen: Los Trastornos en el Desarrollo de la Coordinación (TDC), en inglés, Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), son una problemática relativamente reciente, cuya preva...
Los Trastornos Evolutivos de la Coordinación (TDC) son una problemática relativamente reciente que afecta en torno a un 5-8% de la población infantil. Afecta a niños que no presentan ningún déficit cognitivo aparente, pero que muestran un desarrollo motor deficiente para su edad, con limitaciones de coordinación y dificultades para la realización d...
The aim of the present study was to identify the importance of the goalkeeper’s chance to shoot at goal as an outfield player in elite futsal according to critical and situational variables. The sample consisted of 11,446 actions corresponding to 1325 matches from the Spanish Futsal League in the seasons from 2010 to 2015. Binary logistic regressio...
RESUMEN El portero como jugador de campo viene siendo utilizado por la mayoría de entrenadores de futsal en situaciones de emergencia, relacionadas con un marcador adverso en los momentos finales del partido. El objetivo del presente estudio fue identificar como el impacto alcanzado por determinadas variables contextuales puede dejar instalado un e...
Defender el derecho de los menos competentes a recibir una educación física de calidad no es una arbitrariedad ni un capricho, es un derecho, y es en este contexto donde deseamos ubicar a los protagonistas de este Monográfico de la Revista RICYDE. Ya en 2006 habíamos llamado la atención sobre la existencia de lo que denominábamos “dificultad oculta...
Se presenta un enfoque pedagógico para el desarrollo de la competencia acuática de los más pequeños, el Método Acuático Comprensivo.
There is a wide body of research that has identified the strong links between health behaviors and academic achievement. The media and official agencies strive to convey to schoolchildren and the public the need to show healthy lifestyles. However, it is striking that sleep habits have been considered in few occasions within healthy behaviors to be...
There are very few instruments that evaluate children’s overall development in an aquatic environment. This study aimed to create, design and validate an “Inventory of evolutionary aquatic development” IEAD (IDEA)) for 6 to 12 month old babies. Validation was made through two studies: the first study involved 211 babies (110 boys and 101 girls), wh...
One of the least commented and hidden aspect in Physical Education and Sport (PE&S)is the presence of low skilled students who are not able to learn satisfactorily the skills of their programs. The study of motor clumsiness has been confined to the therapeutic field. Thus, physical education teachers have accepted that problems of low motor compete...
One of the main objectives of physical education and sport (PES) pedagogy in schools is to develop motor competence in children. While many schoolchildren practice sports, there is a group of children that does not receive the educational opportunities to be competent. These children show low motor competence and poor motor coordination. Internatio...
El concepto de Grit, que ha sido definido como perseverancia en el esfuerzo y consistencia en los intereses para la consecución de unos objetivos. Ha recibido una gran atención por sus posibilidades de predecir el éxito en diferentes ámbitos. El objetivo del presente estudio fue validar la escala Grit al idioma español. Se ha contado con una muestr...
Currently there is no concern for clumsy children in physical education classes. Scientific and pedagogical literature do not show a great interest in children with motor coordination problems in Physical Education, this question is of more interest for physical and occupational therapists (Cairney, 2015). The seventies, eighties and nineties were...
The classical cognitive concept of anticipation and timing (for example, reaction time) somewhat limits the study of sports actions under spatio-temporal pressure. The presence, duration and evolution of the information of the opponents, spatio-temporal pressure, the evolution of the athlete’s response movements or the degree of representativeness...
Amount of specific long distance training activities in best Kenyan long distance runners.
In this study, a designed ad hoc questionnaire was constructed and validated to investigate the opinion of coaches about the concept of unfavorable critical moment in futsal, and the coincident use of goalkeeper as an outfield player strategy (5vs4) with that critical moment, which is a decisive step towards theoretical and methodological convergen...
Within the context of expert performance and the deliberate practice approach, the present study analysed the subjective perceptions about the training tasks of a group of international long distance runners from Spain and Kenya. To do so the athletes fulfilled a questionnaire based on taxonomy of training activities that assessed four dimensions:...
El objetivo de este estudio fue el desarrollo y evaluación métrica del Test Motor SportComp, instrumento diseñado
para ayudar a los profesores de educación física en la evaluación de la coordinación motriz global de sus
alumnos de Educación Secundaria. En la actualidad no existen tests que evalúen la coordinación motriz de forma
válida y fiable y q...
Within the context of expert performance and the deliberate practice approach, the present study analysed the subjective perceptions about the training tasks of a group of international long distance runners from Spain and Kenya. To do so the athletes fulfilled a questionnaire based on taxonomy of training activities that assessed four dimensions:...
Antecedentes: La investigación ha demostrado que el ser humano puede aprender las habilidadesacuáticas desde muy temprana edad. Desarrollar la competencia acuática se ha convertido en uno de losobjetivos importantes a promover desde la más tierna infancia pero que dura todo el ciclo vital, y susefectos en el organismo han sido constatados desde hac...
The main purpose of the present study was to evaluate the validity of the Spanish version of the Children’s Self-Perceptions of Adequacy in and Predilection for Physical Activity questionnaire (Hay, 1992). Two studies were carried out with independent samples (N = 688 / N = 201). The first study checked the internal consistency, the factorial and t...
It is widely accepted that the sources of information used to guide interceptive actions depend on conflicting spatiotemporal task demands. However, there is a paucity of evidence that shows how information pick-up during interceptive actions is adapted to such conflicting constraints. The present study therefore examined the effects of systematic...
Los padres son personas clave en el desarrollo del deporte. Los papeles que los padres desarrollan en el deporte de sus hijos, tanto a nivel recreativo como competitivo, son complejos y variados. Sin embargo, es muy escasa la literatura que hace la distinción entre el padre y la madre.
Este Libro ha pretendido, por tanto, contribuir a conocer mucho...
El estudio del desarrollo del lenguaje y del desarrollo motor ha tenido procesos paralelos e independientes, considerándose al segundo un ámbito secundario que nada tenía que ver con el primero. Las últimas décadas han revitalizado el estudio del desarrollo motor y los enfoques postcognitivos y encarnados (embodiment) han mostrado el papel que el c...
Nowadays the collaborative learning environments have been promoted by the physical education teachers as the best way for decreasing teaching problems independently of teachers’ personal achievements. The aim of the present study was to develop a scale for physical education teachers about social interactions preferences in the workplace environme...
Resumen. En el presente estudio se analizaron las relaciones existentes entre la coordinación motriz global y el rendimiento escolar en un grupo de
adolescentes de educación secundaria obligatoria. Para ello se aplicó a 480 estudiantes (171 mujeres y 309 varones), con una edad media de 13.33 años
(DE: 1.41), un test de coordinación motriz y se obtu...
The aim of this study was to analyse the relationships between motor co-ordination and academic achievement in a group of Spanish Secondary Education adolescents. For this purpose, a motor coordination test was applied to 480 students (171 girls and 309 boys) with an average age of 13.33 years (SD: 1.41). The academic achievement consisted in the a...
A most relevant contribution of Jerome Bruner to Motor Development research has been to highlight its relevance to child development and avoiding considering it as an epiphenomenon accompanying other evolutionary events of greater importance, such as cognitive, emotional or language development. Bruner's ideas in the era of embodied cognition conti...
En el presente estudio se analizó la autopercepción de competencia decisional y la inteligencia contextual de jugadores de fútbol de diferente nivel de pericia. Además, se exploraron las relaciones existentes entre las autopercepciones de competencia para decidir y de inteligencia contextual en jugadores de fútbol, para lo cual participaron volunta...
There is concern about the level of motor coordination among Spanish secondary students and its impact on their daily activities and health. The aim of this study was to evaluate the coordination of a sample of secondary school children. The study included 120 schoolchildren, 65 boys and 55 girls of four Secondary Schools of the Community of Madrid...
This paper presents a review of the research focusing on the study of coordination and motor competence in the adolescent stage. The purpose of this article was to provide an insight into the different dimensions of adolescent motor development in the influence of the evolution of motor coordination at this stage of life. The review included the mo...
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El presente estudio tuvo como finalidad el desarrollo de una Escala de Observación de la Competencia en las clases de Educación Física (ECEF) para escolares de 6 a 8 años. Participaron 16 profesores de educación física en educación primaria, en tres diferentes estudios, el primero relacionado con la selección de los items. Partiendo de la E...
RESUMEN: El presente estudio presenta el desarrollo y validación de un test motor para los escolares de 8 a 12 años. Un panel de expertos se responsabilizó de la selección de las tareas que conformaron la composición inicial del test, el cual fue aplicado a una muestra de 1360 escolares de edades comprendidas entre 7 y 12 años, de los cuales 709 fu...
It was in 1990 when Quest published an issue about “Usefulness of motor learning research for physical educators”. Several scholars tried to give an answer to this question, while motor learning researchers were in favour of this kind of scientific knowledge (Singer, 1990, Magill, 1990) pedagogues were more sceptical (Locke, 1990; Hoffman, 1990). I...
El presente estudio ha tenido como principal objetivo la adaptación de la versión española del Test de Motivación de Logro para el Aprendizaje en Educación Física (AMPET). Esta adaptación supuso la inclusión de una nueva dimensión que permitiera que la competencia motriz percibida pudiera ser analizada desde dos perspectivas, una autopercibida y la...
This study presents the development and validation of a motor test for school children 8 to 12 years. A panel of experts was responsible for the selection of the tasks that formed the initial composition of the test, which was applied to a sample of 1360 school children aged between 7 and 12 years, of whom 709 were boys and 651 girls. The second ve...
This study presents the development and validation of a motor test for school children 8 to 12 years. A panel of experts was responsible for the selection of the tasks that formed the initial composition of the test, which was applied to a sample of 1360 school children
aged between 7 and 12 years, of whom 709 were boys and 651 girls. The second ve...
Se realizó un análisis cronométrico del split-step y del tiempo de respuesta en restadores experimentados para corroborar de forma cuantitativa las observaciones cualitativas que notificó Nick Saviano hace algunos años. También, se estudió el vínculo existente entre las diferentes fases del split-step con la reacción de los jugadores. Para ello, se...
Some years ago, Nick Saviano notified qualitative observations. In this study we have made a chronometric analysis of the split -step and the response times of experienced returners to prove qualitative observations in a quantitative way. The research included the relationship between the different phases of the split-step and the reaction of the p...
This study examines the relationships between multiple intelligences, academic achievement and motor
performance in a group of secondary school children. Four hundred and eighty schoolchildren participated in this study (171 female and 309 male) with an average age of 13.33 years (SD: 1.41). The Revised self-efficacy Inventory for Multiple Intellig...
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El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo analizar las intenciones de ser activos en el futuro de un grupo de escolares adolescentes así como qué variables podrían predecir mejor esta. Participaron 480 escolares de 11 a 16 años (M= 13.33 años; DT= 1.41) de los cuales 309 fueron varones y 171 mujeres de centros de la Comunidad de Madrid y Casti...
Athletes throughout his career through a series of transitions (Wylleman, Alfermann & Lavallee, 2004). Access to elite sport is a crucial transition that has received little attention in the literature. The aim of the study was to determine the factors that facilitated access to the top division of eight international Spanish basketball players. De...
Athletes throughout his career through a series of transitions (Wylleman, Alfermann & Lavallee, 2004). Access to elite sport is a crucial transition that has received little attention in the literature. The aim of the study was to determine the factors that facilitated access to the top division of eight international Spanish basketball players. De...
A common though among soccer professionals is that penalties are a lottery, despite the existence of numerous empirical works that prove the opposite. An ample review about soccer penalty kick studies is presented in the current paper. The document is structured in three main sections: how to improve goalkeeper’s success probability, how to improve...
Background: It is known that competence to make decisions is a fundamental aspect of sport competition.
Objective: This study has analyzed the decision profile of a sample of Spanish football players of different levels of expertise. Methods: 690 Spanish football players of national and international level completed the decision making
questionnair...
Coaches consider that game intelligence is one of the main elements that can predict success in competition. The objective of this study was to analyze the perceptions that soccer players of different level of expertise had about their intelligence in the field. The Contextual Intelligence Questionnaire (ICD) was applied to a sample of spanish socc...
This study is related with the Theory of Expert Performance. This theory proposes that to become an expert in a domain, a subject must pass an extensive period of consistent acquisition in thousands of hours of practice intentionally designed to improve, ie deliberate. This study aimed to analyze the subjective perceptions of a group of Kenyan long...
This study is related with the Theory of Expert Performance. This theory proposes that to become an expert in a domain, a subject must pass an extensive period of consistent acquisition in thousands of hours of practice intentionally designed to improve, ie deliberate. This study aimed to analyze the subjective perceptions of a group of Kenyan long...
In this paper three alternative theoretical streams to cognitivism, with particular emphasis on enactivism are discussed in order to explain the sport skill acquisition process and human control of movement. In the first part, main concepts of ecological psychology are outlined, like movement regulation, direct perception or mutual interdependence...
En el presente artículo se discuten tres corrientes teóricas alternativas al cognitivismo, para explicar el desarrollo hacia la pericia en el ámbito del aprendizaje y del control motor en deporte, haciendo especial énfasis en el enactivismo. En la primera parte se tratan las principales nociones de la psicología ecológica, como la regulación del mo...
El propósito de este estudio ha sido el desarrollo y va- lidación de un Cuestionario de Inteligencia Contextual Percibida en el Deporte en una muestra de deportistas españoles de diferente nivel de pericia. Participaron 2091 deportistas (1519 hombres y 572 mujeres) de eda- des comprendidas entre los 11 y los 59 años (M = 20,8; DT = 6,14). Los análi...
Il y a quelques années, Nick Saviano a publié des observations qualitatives. Dans ce travail nous avons réalisé une analyse chronométrique du saut d’allégement et du temps de réaction de relanceurs expérimentés afin d’étayer ses observations qualitatives par des données quantitatives. Il s’est également intéressé à la relation entre les différentes...
The effects of practice is a matter that has a long research tradition in the field of motor learning. In recent decades, interest has focused on analyzing if random practice has a more favorable learning effects than a more repetitive practice. This was the aim of this study in which forty-eight university students voluntarily participated . Twent...
Resumen El principal objetivo del estudio ha sido comprobar la capacidad de predicción del clima motivacional trasmitido por el profesor en el aula, los mediadores psicológicos y la motivación autodeterminada (representada por el Índice de Autodeterminación) sobre la importancia y utilidad concedida por el alumno a la educación física, así como las...
The purpose of this study was to verify the predictive capacity of the motivational climate provided by the teacher in the classroom, psychological mediators, and students' self-determined motivation (Self-determination Index), regarding the relevance and usefulness that students give to physical education, and its relationships. Eight hundred and...
