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The current paper summarizes the results of the study which carried out between September 2021 and January 2022, in order to determine to what extent, the use of interactive didactic strategies can achieve the cognitive performance of the target group, the students of the High School with Sports Program in Iași, Romania. The study included two groups of students from two parallel 10th school classes, A and B, aged 16-17. The number of subjects participating in our study was 56, of which 28 in each class. All subjects participating in the study passed the 9th school class at the same high school, having continuity, because the Theoretical Sports Training discipline is also taught in the previous school class. The methods used challenged and supported the students in the experimental group to successfully complete the learning tasks throughout the lessons. We observed that: acquisition facilitation was achieved; students were actively involved in their own learning, using their own intellectual and practical skills; students were less reluctant to present and argue their own opinions, capitalized on their prior knowledge experience, communicated efficiently; students cooperated within the group, obtaining benefits in the cognitive, motivational, social, affective plans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study was to identify the students' motivation for participating to sports competitions in school. For this approach, we have identified a stratified random sample made up of 515 boys and 338 girls. The questionnaire we have used has included three categories of reasons for the participation to sports actions: social motives, sports motives and health-promotion motives, intrinsic and extrinsic. The data obtained have emphasized positive results for both genders, on the three motivation directions: "fun and joy"; "the wish of being healthy"; "the wish of being part of a team". Motivations such as "the wish of being the best, of being a champion"; "the wish of being popular"; "the wish to compete" were frequent among boys, while girls have mostly social and recreational motives: making new friends, maintaining a health body, fitness. Hence, the combination of the pleasure to participate to the competition and the wish to make new friends are the ways through which we can also increase the number of girls who participate to school competitions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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