Comparative study of physical literacy of primary and secondary schools in Semarang City
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https://doi.org/10.47197/retos.v73.117643Keywords:
Physical literacy, children with special needs, adaptive physical activity, Semarang cityAbstract
Introduction and Objective. Physical literacy is an important component for students in physical education. However, there is still a lack of scientific evidence in primary and secondary schools in Semarang city. This study aims to determine physical literacy by comparing gender and school level.
Methodology. The research method is descriptive-comparative with observation and test data collection techniques, data analysis is descriptive, and the Mann-Whitney inference is assisted by SPSS.
Results. Comparison of education levels of elementary and junior high school (0.302>0.05), junior and senior high school (0.135>0.05), elementary and senior high school (0.046<0.05). Results, by gender girls (primary vs junior secondary 0.110>0.05), girls (primary vs senior secondary 0.115>0.05), girls (junior secondary vs senior secondary 0.556>0.05), boys (primary vs junior secondary 0.934>0.05), boys (primary vs senior secondary 0.140>0.05), boys (junior secondary vs senior secondary 0.117>0.05).
Conclusion. In conclusion, overall, the difference in school levels with relatively distant ages is significant. In addition, differences in education levels that are not relatively far away and the same age do not have significant differences in physical literacy. Nevertheless, overall physical literacy for schools in Semarang City is not yet optimal, and needs to be improved. In addition, there are limitations to the study, namely, more focus on one city, purposive sampling, which affects the justification of data to generalize; therefore, further improvements are needed.
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