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Drowning is a serious public health problem with profound economic and health impact. The objective was to design and analyze the validity of the content within a scale as to assess aquatic competence in aquatic rescue. The content validation has been carried out in accordance to the opinion, agreement and consensus of 9 experts using the Delphi technique. The validity (of comprehension) was bear out once the scale was applied to a separate sample. Following the collection of the contributions made by the trial of experts and adjusting the scale according to the indications, a second review was carried out obtaining in all of the scenarios values higher than 0.8 in the Kendall coefficient. The validity of content such as the confirmatory factorial analysis showed adequate measurements for the dimensions of the evaluation scale: aquatic competence in rescue and lifeguard. The results presented the Aquatic Competence Assessment Scale as valid and reliable, which allows the opening of a new line of work towards the development of cognitive and behavioral processes in the teaching and training of lifeguard, offering a measuring instrument to analyze its effect on the decision-making.

The next study analyzed the Goal Orientation of the schoolchildren of secondary school registered in 2º, 3º and 4º course, in their Physical Education classes. For this, differences according to sex and age variables have been examined; as depending on them, their motivation and orientation differs, affecting in the Physical Education classes. A sample of 148 students from the high school has been used and they studied 2º, 3º and 4º of secondary in the Buen Pastor School from Murcia. The instrument which was used was the Perception of Success Questionnaire: POSQ. For the results, a calculation of the main descriptive statistics have been made, calculating the two subscales reliability, through to index internal coefficient of Cronbach's alpha, getting as results higher levels in high schoolchildren on task orientation and as the differences for sex, higher disposition percentage as in the ego as in the task in male population, El presente estudio analizó las Orientaciones de Meta de los jóvenes escolares de Educación Secundaria matriculados en 2º, 3º y 4º curso, en sus clases de Educación Física. Para ello se han examinado las diferencias existentes en función de las variables sexo y edad; ya que dependiendo de las mismas, su motivación y orientación difiere, afectando en la clase de Educación Física. Se ha utilizado una muestra de 148 estudiantes que cursaban 2º, 3º ó 4º de ESO en el Colegio El Buen Pastor de Murcia. El instrumento empleado fue el Cuestionario de Percepción de Éxito (POSQ). Para los resultados se ha realizado un cálculo de los principales estadísticos descriptivos, calculando la fiabilidad de las dos subescalas, a través del índice de consistencia interna de alfa de Cronbach, obteniendo como resultados mayores niveles en los escolares respecto a la orientación a la tarea y en cuanto a las diferencias por sexo, mayor porcentaje de disposición tanto al ego como a la tarea en la población masculina