STUDY REGARDING THE EVOLUTION OF THE PRIMARY SCHOOL CURRICULUM FOR PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN ROMANIA IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM APPLICATION

The changes that have occurred in the last few years as far as the Physical Education class is concerned were numerous, and this fact determined us to carry out a study by means of which we wanted to highlight the significant content differences between the newly proposed curricula and the already existing ones. The study followed the changes that arose in the primary school curriculum and their relationship with the School National Assessment System. To this end, the existent school curriculum content elements, drawn up between 2003 and 2005, were compared to the new curriculum for Physical Education, drawn up in the period 2013-2014, and whose application in the educational process began in 2015. The content elements of the two curricula were analyzed on grades and considerable differences were noticed in terms of the approach to practicing physical exercise. As a result of the performed analysis, we consider that, in order to efficiently implement the new curriculum in school activity, a new assessment method must be drawn up, which can better reflect the appropriation level of this new curriculum's content. Thus, we suggest the use of a number of relevant psychomotor content tests, such as Harris' laterality test, the Ozeretski - Guillmainn test and the spatial orientation test - Piaget-Head.