title: [Evaluation of motor skills of adolescents from a large city environment attending the Technical School of Mechanical Engineering and the Grammar School in Lódź].
abstract: A long-term study on the motor skills of juveniles was carried out. The subjects were 104 students from the Secondary School of Mechanical Engineering (SSME) and 37 from Grammar School (GS). The subjects from each of the schools were divided into two subgroups: those undergoing training in a sporting club (sport group--SG) and those who did not practise any sports in an organised way (non-sport group--NSG). Motor skills were examined with the use of the test battery worked out by Denisiuk (60-metre run, 30-metre run with overturn, high force jump, standing long jump test, 300-metre run, 1000-metre run, medical ball throw). General motor skills were expressed in terms of a synthetic coefficient. The motor skills were found to be at high and intermediate levels. Those evaluated by the Denisiuk battery of tests in the SSME students were higher, as compared to those in GS students. Parameters tested in sport groups were higher than respective parameters in NSG groups.
authors.affiliation: Instytutu Medycyny Pracy, Lodzi.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kozłowski
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Sobczak
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D004738:Engineering; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009048:Motor Skills / Q000502:physiology*; D011044:Poland; D013177:Sports; D013334:Students; D014505:Urban Population; D014829:Vocational Education
vernacular_title: Ocena rozwoju sprawności motorycznej młodziezy ze środowiska wielkomiejskiego na przykładzie uczniów Technikum Mechanicznego i Liceum Ogólnokształcacego w Lodzi.