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Differences in characteristics of kinanthropological status in students aged 10 to 12 years

Quantitatively defining the kinanthropological status of each student provides an adequate set of information which a kinesiologist can use to properly plan and program the teaching contents, respecting each student as a separate entity in his/her specific moment in growth and development, with the ultimate goal of improving the quality of teaching in physical education classes (Milić et al., 2012). The aim of this research was to analyze the differences of characteristics in kinanthropological status of male and female students from Zagreb, aged 10 to 12 years. A sample of 382 subjects was used (203 male and 179 female 5th and 6th grade students of elementary schools in Zagreb) to assess the kinanthropological status by applying 8 variables of initial and final measurement. Significant difference was found by using ANOVA. Levels of statistical significance of differences between male and female students were found by further analysis applying dependent samples t-test on a variable of differences which resulted after arithmetic means of the final measurement had been subtracted from the arithmetic means of the initial measurement. Coefficient of canonical discrimination of 0.28 and the significance level of 0.00 point to the sexual differentiation of male and female students aged 10 to 12 years. Discriminant function and group centroids clearly define that female students are dominantly separated from male students in the kinanthropological space. The results obtained in this research correspond to previous studies investigating the period of changes in growth and development of boys and girls.

biomotor status; pre-puberty; sexual differentiation; students ;

Quantitatively defining the kinanthropological status of each student provides an adequate set of information which a kinesiologist can use to properly plan and program the teaching contents, respecting each student as a separate entity in his/her specific moment in growth and development, with the ultimate goal of improving the quality of teaching in physical education classes (Milić et al., 2012). The aim of this research was to analyze the differences of characteristics in kinanthropological status of male and female students from Zagreb, aged 10 to 12 years. A sample of 382 subjects was used (203 male and 179 female 5th and 6th grade students of elementary schools in Zagreb) to assess the kinanthropological status by applying 8 variables of initial and final measurement. Significant difference was found by using ANOVA. Levels of statistical significance of differences between male and female students were found by further analysis applying dependent samples t-test on a variable of differences which resulted after arithmetic means of the final measurement had been subtracted from the arithmetic means of the initial measurement. Coefficient of canonical discrimination of 0.28 an