SUCCESS RATE OF NSA STUDENTS IN THE ATTENDANCE AND ONLINE BASKETBALL EXAMS

ABSTRACT After the declared state of emergency in Bulgaria and the world because of the Covid-19 pandemic, from the 2019/2020 school year, the students from the National Sports Academy “Vassil Levski” went into an online form of teaching in the platform of the university, where the semester exams were also conducted. The basketball exam includes a test of 20 closed questions. However, students from the Faculty of Pedagogy also take an exam on the Methodology of Teaching in writing and oral form. Still, during the pandemic, this exam was also adapted to a test form of 20 questions with closed questions. This study aims to establish and compare the success rate of students in taking a basketball exam in attendance and online forms. Methodology of the study: the “e-student” provided us with the marks of the students from the attendance form of the exams, and the distance learning platform has been used for gaining the marks of the students from the online exam. The subject of the study is the success of the students taking the basketball exam. The evaluation marks are the subject of research. The results of 1428 students from the faculty of sport and 548 from the faculty of pedagogy were examined. The methods applied to realize the study’s goal and tasks are: overview study of specialized literature, analysis, synthesis, and comparison. Math-statistical results of the study were processed with SPSS 23 using frequency analysis and comparative analysis with the Student’s t-test for independent samples and dispersion analyses. The results showed that students received a lower average score when taking a basketball exam online than on the attendance test. We can summarize that few students are willing to study, make an effort, and receive higher grades in attendance and online environments, while the majority of them just want to pass the exam.