Weaving relations between motivation for Physical Education classes and IDEB

Understanding the motivation of students in Physical Education classes is a major challenge today to keep them involved in activities. Problems associated with teaching poor quality and inadequate physical structure of schools greatly affect interest in classes.

Objective:  To investigate the motivation of the students of Physical Education of the state schools of Maringá-PR.

Methodology  Two schools were selected: with lower Ideb and one with higher Ideb; the data were collected from the questionnaire of Basic Psychological Needs in School Physical Education (BPNES), and analyzed using SPSS software version 20.0, considering the value of p < 0.05.

Conclusion:  The results showed that in general the students with the highest Ideb had a higher motivation in the competence dimension. When comparing the sexes of the participants, there was no significant difference in any aspect.

KEYWORDS
Motivation; Physical education; Ideb