HOMOGENEITY OF STUDENT GROUPS BY THE INDICES FOR PROFESSIONALLY SIGNIFICANT INTELLECTUAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION DISCIPLINE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND GEOLOGY „ST. IVAN RILSKI“

Abstract

In professiograms for the different professions, it is obligatory to indicate the professionally-significant qualities of the successful realization of experts. In our work, we have focused our attention on the professionally-significant intellectual qualities for engineers, at the mining branch. The aim is to investigate the level of development of these qualities with students, educated for the profession at the UMG „St. Ivan Rilski“-Sofia and establish the variability of some educational groups (Basketball, Table tennis, Fitness and Football) of the subject „Physical education“. From the investigated six professionally-significant intellectual (cognitive) indices, the results on two of them -precision and quality of the operative thinking, define the groups as homogeneous. With three of indices, the groups are determined as comparatively homogeneous–concentration of attention, speed of operative thinking and visual memory-exclusion is the football group which is heterogeneous. As regards the logic thinking the four investigated groups are highly heterogeneous, with the exception of the Table tennis group, which is comparatively homogeneous. In conclusion, it is recommended by suitable means and methods, to work persistently on building and perfection of cognitive characteristics that will ease the realization of future experts.

Keywords

• students
• cognitive
• professionally-significant
• qualities
• physical education
• mining industry