@article{Іващенко_2016, title={Pedagogical Control of Motor and Functional Preparedness of Girls Aged 15-16}, url={https://tmfv.com.ua/journal/article/view/1171}, DOI={10.17309/tmfv.2016.3.1171}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Research objective</strong><strong>.</strong> To improve the methods of pedagogical control of motor and functional preparedness of female high schoolers.</p> <p><strong>Materials and methods. </strong>To achieve the tasks set, the research used the following methods: analysis of scientific and methodological literature, pedagogical testing and methods of mathematical statistics of data reduction.</p> <p><strong>Statistical analysis.</strong> We used the IBM SPSS 20 program of statistical analysis to process the research materials. It calculated the following statistics for each variable: mean, standard deviations, Student’s t-test criteria for independent samples. During the discriminant analysis, we created a prognostic model for belonging to a group. This model builds the discriminant function (or a set of discriminant functions in case of more than two groups) as a linear combination of predictor variables, which ensures the best division of groups.</p> <p>The participants in the study were 22 girls aged 15, and 32 girls aged 16.</p> <p><strong>Research results.</strong> The canonical function obtained explains 100% of the variation of the results, and is informative for the classification of motor and functional preparedness of the girls aged 15-16. The analysis of the canonical function proves its statistical significance (λ=.489; р < .0001). The structural coefficients of the canonical discriminant function show that the levels of functional preparedness of the girls aged 15 and 16 considerably differ.</p> <p><strong>Conclusions.</strong> The girls aged 15 show better motor and functional preparedness than the girls aged 16. This indicates that the reason why the 16 year-old girls fall behind the 15 year-old girls is the decrease in physical activity at the age of 16. The levels of the functional preparedness of the girls aged 15 and those aged 16 differ significantly.</p> <p>The data obtained show a prognostic significance of the discriminant function in assessing the level of motor and functional preparedness of the girls aged 15-16. The discriminant model can be used for pedagogical control of the level of motor and functional preparedness of girls aged 15-16.</p>}, number={3}, journal={Physical Education Theory and Methodology}, author={Іващенко, О. В.}, year={2016}, month={Sep.}, pages={36–50} }