Abstract

When educating either students in physical education or leading athletes in their sports training, it is essential to keep the educational process in continuity with preferred methodological conceptions. Thus, the main purpose of this research was to verify an influence of newly conceived progressive methods and strategies on students in settings of swimming instruction. The sample consisted of 26 secondary school students aged 11 to 12 years. Results show that the application of the progressive educational process affects positively the acquisition of swimming motor skills. The efficiency of the application manifested itself, above all, in differences between input and output levels of the motor skills. We can claim that the progressive teaching method was also useful to meet challenging cognitive objectives. When comparing progressive and habitual lessons from a view of students’ evaluation, the progressive lessons were continuously better evaluated. Verf.-Referat