Abstract
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