ATTITUDE, PERSONAL PERCEPTIONS AND THE STUDENTS' BELIEF: HOW ARE THEY RELATED IN THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION?

Abstract

The research on the pupil's thought highlights the attitudes, personal perceptions, beliefs and values as elements mediators between the teaching and the learning, as well as it points out the existent mutual influence between the teacher's behavior, the student's behavior and the product of the learning. The objective of this research was to characterize the attitudes, personal perceptions and the students' belief in the physical education, as well as to relate them for search of explanatory inferences. The sample was composed by 334 pupils of 6th, 7th and 8th grades. The data collection was accomplished through questionnaire with closed questions and answers in scale of the type likert. The results reveal attitude, beliefs and positive perceptions in relation to the objects in study. Relationships were significantly positive between attitude toward PE and perceived competence with the pupils' personal perceptions. This reinforces the importance of the positive interactions in teaching-learning process to stimulate attitudes and pupils' positive beliefs in PE.