Measurement of motivation and qualitative effects of physical effort during two motor learning sessions with multifaceted variation of goals, methods, measures and tools – example of violin playing and safe fall

Abstract: The purpose of this case study is to argue empirically about the similarities and differences of the indicators used to evaluate the motor learning effects of new motor competencies with distinct goals and in radically different educational settings. During 14 sessions of remote teaching and improvement of violin playing during the COVID-19 pandemic, a less than 13-year-old boy in the last semester of a six-year first-level music school was observed. Two 22-year-old female students (Girl1 and Girl2) and a 21-year-old male student (Boy) were observed during 8 sessions of a safe fall course (a mandatory subject in a physiotherapy degree program). The effects of the adolescent violinist's effort were evaluated three times during the session (in the beginning, middle, and end parts). The music teacher arbitrarily adopted five kinesiological criteria for evaluating movement characteristics: accuracy, rhythm, range, force, tempo. He combined each individually with artistic effects according to a 25-point scale. The highest arithmetic means of the evaluation scores of the violinist's joint motor and artistic activities were found during the 5th session, when he declared a self-motivation of 5 points. The most positive health effects of exercise of Girl1 and Girl2 are furthermore documented by the highest number of sessions (8 and 7 respectively, representing 87.5% and 75% of the observations) during which exercise was qualified to the high intensity zone. Elements of measuring physical exertion and motor effects with a component of either artistic or prevention component during motor learning in the areas of instrumental music and motor skills related to human personal safety (safe falling, avoiding collisions, self-defence, skiing, etc.) can be mutually implemented to the benefit of public health in particular.

Keywords: COVID-19, dispositional feasibility, exercise load, performance, possibility of action, situational actionability

DOI: 10.54941/ahfe1005715

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