Keywords
basic swimming skills
basic swimming course swimming
basic swimming skills
basic swimming course
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Abstract
The main aim of the research is to determine the effect of a 5-day-long intensive swimming course on swimming
literacy for pupils from elementary school. We used a set of four tests of basic swimming skills for establishing
the input and output levels of their swimming skills, which were point-rated and ranked according to their
difficulty. Pupils attended the swimming course 5 days in a row, each day for 45 minutes and each hour had its
own goals and content. We tested 60 pupils from elementary school with an average age of 9 years. Monitored
changes in pupils' swimming literacy according to the evaluation scales are compared statistically by Chiquadrate. For the evaluation of practical significance we used the effect size Cramer´s φc (10 small effect size, .30
medium effect size, .50 large effect size). By comparison of changes in the input and output results we found that
our tested probands achieved in the output testing reveal statistically significant better results in comparison
with input testing in each test of basic swimming skills. We consider that the response to a short intensive
swimming course, where pupils were in everyday contact with the water and their instructor, is significant
according to the results and it can be regarded as a useful tool for the development of children´s basic swimming
literacy
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