APPLICATION OF SOCIOMETRIC TESTING AND EVALUATION OF NATURAL SITUATION AS A FACTOR TO IMPROVE MEASURING TRAINING

Abstract

In order to improve the training process in the swimming sport, a survey was conducted in which 30 athletes (12-14 years old, boys and girls) were divided into 2 equal groups according to an official scientific sociometric test that they were given to complete, as well as similar physical fitness tests. Based on the information gathered from these two tests, the following groups were formed:
1) The experimental group, in which the work was carried out with homogeneous segments and
2) The control group in which the work was carried out with heterogeneous segments.
The control team followed the traditional way of training, where the main disadvantage was that the coach worked at the same time with all athletes, regardless of social preference and physical condition, with the result that the stimuli accepted by athletes did not bring the expected performance.
However, this is not the case with the experimental group, in which its members clearly had better personal relationships and about the same physical condition. As a consequence, the stimuli that they received daily in training were as effective for everyone. At the same time, the same tests were applied to the members of the experimental group where, according to these results, 3 subcategories were obtained, aiming at better training and best results.
At the end of the second year, our research showed that the experimental group had clearly better performances than the control group, which at the beginning of the first year of the survey had much better results. So I strongly recommend grouping as this is more effective and interesting.