Orientador: José Júlio Gavião de Almeida / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação Física / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T01:19:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pena_LuisGustavodeSouza_M.pdf: 3543516 bytes, checksum: 288ed531b8f7a69d20f19deed2c000bd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: O Esporte Paralímpico passa por um grande crescimento, sendo a formação de recursos humanos parte importante nesse processo. Profissionais de Educação Física devem cada vez mais tomar contato com esse conteúdo durante seu processo de formação inicial, de modo a qualificar sua prática profissional. Faz-se necessário oferecer oportunidades para os alunos vivenciarem as modalidades paralímpicas, estimulando a reflexão sobre a futura atuação profissional. O objetivo do trabalho é investigar a percepção de docentes e acadêmicos do curso de Educação Física, nas modalidades licenciatura e bacharelado, acerca do Esporte Paralímpico enquanto vivência prática e formação profissional. Foram realizadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas com 6 professores de disciplinas que abordem o Esporte Paralímpico como um de seus conteúdos e com 10 alunos de graduação e pós-graduação que participaram do projeto de extensão em 5 modalidades paradesportivas e aplicado um questionário em 54 alunos de graduação que participaram de um torneio universitário. Acadêmicos e docentes acreditam que o Esporte Paralímpico é um conteúdo importante a ser trabalhada na Educação Física e a vivência prática é parte fundamental no processo de aprendizagem. Além disso, consideram os espaços extracurriculares como ferramentas importantes de aprendizado, possibilitando o aprofundamento do conteúdo discutido em sala de aula. Espera-se que mais pesquisas possam ser realizadas de modo a relacionar a prática docente com o plano de aulas e as ementas das disciplinas, observarem as aulas, buscarem alternativas extracurriculares, de modo a aprofundar as reflexões sobre a abordagem do Esporte Paralímpico na formação do profissional de educação Física / Abstract: The Paralympic Sport is going through a great development and the professional forming process plays an important role. Physical Education professionals should increase their contact with this subject throughout the forming process and qualify their practice. It is necessary provide opportunities to students experience paralympic sports and spread reflections about the future practice. The aim of this research is investigate the perceptions of Physical Education teachers and students about the Paralympic Sport in Physical Education courses. Were conducted semi-structured interviews with six teachers that work with Paralympic Sport in their disciplines and 10 graduation and post-graduation students participants of a 5 sports-extension project and applied a questionnaire on 54 graduation students who participated a university tournament. Students and teachers believe that Paralympic Sport an important contends to be discussed in Physical Education and the practical experience plays a fundamental role in this process. Besides, they consider extracurricular spaces as useful learning tool, that deep the knowledge debated during the class time. It is expected that more investigations can be conducted relating the teachers practices to the class plan and the disciplines menus, watching the classes, seeking other extracurricular alternatives, and deep the reflections about the Paralympic Sport in Physical Education courses / Mestrado / Atividade Fisica Adaptada / Mestre em Educação Física

Introduction: Before 2015 the hand classification in wheelchair rugby consisted of non-sport specific tests. The hand classification was not in accordance with the classification code introduced by the International Paralympic Committee in 2003. In 2015, the newly revised wheelchair rugby classification manual was released, containing the revised wheelchair rugby hand classification. Hand tests that were not functional sport-specific tests were removed from the bench test in wheelchair rugby classification. Lumbrical, interossei and thumb opposition manual muscle testing were added to the bench test in wheelchair rugby classification. On both national and international levels of classification, classifiers verbalised their uncertainty to their fellow panel members regarding their hand placement on the athlete’s hand and interpretation of the manual muscle testing of the hand that was observed and tested. This justified reliability testing of the new hand classification. Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the intra and inter-rater reliability of the manual muscle testing in the new hand classification of wheelchair rugby. Study design: This study followed a quantitative non-experimental, cross-sectional design. Method: The raters who took part in the study were active international wheelchair rugby classifiers from all over the world. The raters received an electronic questionnaire consisting of biographic information and three videos repeated two times. Each video showed an athlete’s hand being classified by a classifier. The raters had to give a manual muscle test grade for each subject (muscle) tested in each video by using tick boxes. The manual muscle test grades that could be given were: 0-1, 2, 3 and 4-5. The first three raters in each international wheelchair rugby classification level who completed the questionnaire were used for the data analysis. Data Analysis: The statistician used the two way model for the ICC in which each subject was rated by the same raters to determine the absolute agreement for each objective. The Medcalc program was used. To indicate the strength of agreement the ranges provided by Landis and Koch (1977) were used: 0.0 – 0.2 slight, 0.21 – 0.4 fair, 0.41 – 0.6 moderate, 0.61 – 0.8 substantial and 0.81 – 1.00 almost perfect. Conclusion: Raters one, two, five, seven, eight and nine’s intraclass correlation coefficient values fell between 0.81-1.00 which is descriptive of almost perfect levels of intra-rater reliability. Raters three, four and six’s intraclass correlation coefficient values fell between 0.61-0.80 which is descriptive of substantial levels of intra-rater reliability. However, none of the raters scored 100% when accuracy was determined. All three levels had intraclass correlation coefficient values which is descriptive of almost perfect levels of intra-rater reliability within each level. Level 2, 3 and 4 classifiers had intraclass correlation coefficient values between 0.81- 1.00 which is descriptive of almost perfect levels of inter-rater reliability when the manual muscle testing grades for the first and repeated videos were compared. Across all nine raters there was a high intraclass correlation coefficient value which was descriptive of almost perfect inter-rater reliability. The accuracy in each level and across all nine raters was low. Finger extensors, thumb abductor and thumb flexor showed intraclass correlation coefficient values between 0.41-0.6 which is descriptive of moderate levels of intrarater reliability. The only subjects (muscles) that were graded accurately when compared to a memorandum were subjects with a manual muscle test grade 0-1 and 4-5. Most of the accurate manual muscle test grades were for athlete two in the video footage. Athlete two was classified as having a 2.0 hand. / Dissertation (MOccThe)--University of Pretoria, 2017. / Occupational Therapy / MOccThe / Unrestricted