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Scientific approach to and methodological orientation in research on team sport games in Croatia has been detected with the process of solving more crucial, interrelated methodological issues among which the most important part makes the research of standard situational efficiency parameters in sport games, The structure of situational efficiency parameters in modern sport represent a basis for further comparative analysis of athletes and teams, and especially for better short preparation modeling and programming.

The aim of this study was to determine the differences between the chosen situational parameters of bowl- ing, which is a part of physical education classes for Croatian students. The subject sample consisted of 32 male and 38 female 1st and 2nd year students of professional studies at the Croatian College of Slavonski Brod. The variable sample included 5 tests of situational parameters in bowling: miss/blunder (MISS), full (FULL), cleaning (CLEA), combi- nation/total (COMB) and speed of rolling the ball/release (ROLL). Statistically significant gender differentiation was determined by t-test for independent samples in the variables FULL, COMB and ROLL, which indicates that male students were somewhat more efficient in bowling than female students. It is the authors' assumption that the difference in efficiency is conditioned by gender differences in strength which is also manifested in the speed of the ball release.