LEARNING PREFERENCES BETWEEN BOYS AND GIRLS IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASSES

Resumen

The study of participative preferences are being increasingly explored (Ruiz, Graupera, Rico and Mata, 2004; Ruiz MorenoGraupera and Rico, 2010), supporting the importance that many of the educators recognize about knowing the preferences of learnersand self-perception in learning motor skills (Lintunen, 1999). The aim of the study was to know, understand and compare the particip ativepreferences in the learning of physical education between boys and girls in the primary and secondary education. The aim of the studywas to determine and compare participative preferences on the process of learning physical education among students of elementaryand secondary education. 561 students from 6 to 18 years old (277 boys and 284 girls) filled out the Graupera/Ruiz Preferences Scale ofSocial Interaction in PE Learning (GR). This instrument has 28 items divided into four categories: affiliation, competition, cooperation andindividualism. The analysis shows how students score higher in boy’s competition category than those done by girls. Data analysis showshow male students score higher in the factor of competitiveness versus the values presented by female students. The differences regardingthe sex appear in numerous investigations showing how the girls are less competitive than the boys coinciding with Ruiz, Graupera, Moreno and Rico’s research (2010)