Construção e aplicação de um teste para medir o resultado do desempenho motor no nado borboleta

Abstract

Within Physical Education and Motor Learning, tests are considered important tools for appraising efficiency in the learning-teaching process and an important element to verify the improvement of motor performance concerning any motor skills. The aims of this study were the building, validation and application of a test to measure performance results out of the butterfly swim. To build it, the theoretical references by Machado (1978), Counsilman (1984), Palmer (1990), Maglischo (1999) and Colwin (2000) were used. The swimming technique was split in five sections, body movement, legs movement, arms movement, respiration and synchronization. Afterwards, the tool was sent to referees for validation. Following their suggestions, the test was then reformulated. The test was applied to 41 students from three Swimming Schools in Santa Maria - RS, who had already started learning this swim style. To, according to Pellegrini (2000), assort them across learning levels, Multivariate Analysis techniques were applied through SPSS Statistical Package, version 11.0. The results showed that 41% of the students ranked on the 3rd level (expert); 34%, on the 2nd level (intermediary); and 24%, on the 1st level (unskilled). The building and validation of this tool might be useful within pedagogic situations, provided it helps swimming teachers with the classification and evaluation of their students’ technical evolution, as well as with the scientific surveys inquiring elements of the butterfly swim technique.