Analysis of the Students’ Readiness for the Formation of Sports & Health Competence during the Distance Education

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the urgent issue of training future highly qualified specialists in technical industries. In particular, it deals with the formation not only professional competence, but also sports & health competences for students of higher technical educational institutions. The Topicality of the Research is due to the contradiction between the transition of higher technical educational institutions to distance education and the readiness of the students to new conditions. The Purpose of the Research is to determine the readiness of students of the higher technical educational institution to form sports & health competence in the context of distance education. Stuff and the Research Methods. The research used the methods of psychological and pedagogical observations, questioning, methods of psychological diagnostics, physiological methods and motor test methods. The Research Participants. The study involved 59 1^st and 2^nd year-study students of the Dniprovsk State Technical University. The Research Results. Implementation of pedagogical conditions has been proposed to resolve the issue on students` sports & health competence formation. Implementation of the pedagogical conditions that are closely associated with professional-applied physical training was carried out in two stages. The implementation of the pedagogical conditions caused rising and improving mental and volitional qualities, the students got the necessary knowledge and skills, a lot of professionally valuable skills such as sensory, mental, motor and volitional ones were acquired to provide a high level of functioning and reliability of all the major organs, systems, mental processes of the human organism. Pedagogical conditions that ensure the effectiveness of the formation of sports & health competence, a healthy lifestyle of modern students and orient young people towards a qualitatively active, positively charged (health- saving) environment in a higher technical educational institution were substantiated and experimentally tested in the paper. Conclusions. The achievement of a positive result in the formation of professional sports & health competence of student youth occurs on the condition that a student’s orientation scheme for the formation of individual and professional culture (orientation strategy) is built in a higher technical educational institution.