Keywords
assessment
physical abilities
performance perceived difficulty
assessment
physical abilities
performance
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Abstract
We have investigated the relationship between performance in sports exercises and perceived difficulties in
physical ability tasks for boys and girls. In order to assess physical abilities in sport, we conducted experiments
concerning methods for self-evaluating the difficulty of physical ability required in sports exercises through
implementation of creative vaulting tasks in addition to Eurofit and Evareg tests. Based on a hypothesis that
specific physical abilities could predict performance in physical education for boys and girls, we distinguished
the relationship between genders concerning perceived difficulty for varied ability tasks. Although sporting
exercises performance was high among boys rather than girls, there was no significant difference in perceived
difficulties of physical tasks between genders. We highlight how perceived difficulties among students appears to
have resulted in higher student motivation levels, and increased desire to improve performance for more effective
learning and teaching experience. We recommend that methods of perceiving difficulties in sport exercises need
more exploration for better practices
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