Percepción de los tutores sobre el potencial de la educación física como medio para la obtención de información sobre la evolución del alumnado en el contexto escolar español

Physical Education is a subject present in the official educational curriculum in the stages of both primary and secondary education in Spain. Through this research we have explored the perception of the classroom tutors about the potential that this subject has as a way to obtain information about the evolution of the students during the academic course. This information has been collected through an ad hoc questionnaire that has been completed by 38 primary and secondary classroom tutors from public and private schools in four provinces of the Spanish geography. The data show that Physical Education can provide abundant information especially in the personal and social field of student development and that these are the dimensions by which reference is made to the subject in the interviews with families. Greater communication among teachers is suggested for a better use of this informative potential.