Tandem teaching of physical and sports education in primary school and its impact on popularity of the subject

Abstract

Tandem teaching is not unknown form of work in primary education, also is not very common practice in Europe and worldwide. In the paper, we present partial results of a broader research focused on the impact of tandem teaching of physical and sports education in primary school and its impact to motor, cognitive and emotional development of pupils. It was a two-group time-concurrent experiment. The research was carried out in the 2021/2022 school year in Slovakia and the group consisted of 418 pupils of the 1st and 2nd year of primary school. A specially designed questionnaire was used to obtain empirical data. The results showed that the popularity of the subject Physical and sports education increased in the set of pupils who completed tandem teaching of the physical and sports education during the observed period (school year 2021/2022). The study is supported by The Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic (VEGA) with number 1/0213/23. It is titled "Tandem Teaching of Physical and Sports Education in Primary School and its Impact to Motor, Cognitive and Emotional Development of Pupils".