www.balticsportscience.com 79 ORIGINAL doi: 10.29359/BJHPA.13.Spec.Iss1.07 Baltic Journal of Health and Physical Activity 2021; Special Issue 1: Sport and Tourism. Yesterday - Today - Tomorrow. Vol. 2 Eds. DJ. Olszewski-Strzyżowski and S. Buhaş Journal of Gdansk University of Physical Education and Sport e-ISSN 2080-9999 Aspects regarding the improvement of middle schooler attendance at physical education classes Dana Ioana Cristea 1 ABC , Anca-Cristina Pop 1 AFE , Paula Nica 2 BC , Aurelian Andrei Cristea 3 EF , Gheorghe Lucaciu 1 BCD , Marius Alin Marinău 1 BCE 1 Department of Physical Education, Sport and Physical Therapy, University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania 2 Dinamo Bucharest Sports Club, basketball section, Bucharest, Romania 3 “Greco-Catholic” High school, Oradea, Romania Authors’ Contribution: A Study Design B Data Collection C Statistical Analysis D Data Interpretation E Manuscript Preparation F Literature Search G Funds Collection article details Article statistics: Word count: 2,440; Tables: 0; Figures: 3; References: 31 Received: June 2021; Accepted: October 2021; Published: November 2021 Full-text PDF: http://www.balticsportscience.com Copyright © Gdansk University of Physical Education and Sport, Poland Indexation: Celdes, Clarivate Analytics Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), CNPIEC, DOAJ, EBSCO - Central & Eastern European Academic Source, EBSCO - SPORTDiscus, EBSCO Discovery Service, Google Scholar, Index Copernicus, J-Gate, Naviga (Softweco, Primo Central (ExLibris), ProQuest - Family Health, ProQuest - Health & Medical Complete, ProQuest - Illustrata: Health Sciences, ProQuest - Nursing & Allied Health Source, Summon (Serials Solutions/ProQuest, TDOne (TDNet), Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory/ ulrichsweb, WorldCat (OCLC) Funding: This research received no specifc grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-proft sectors. Confict of interests: Authors have declared that no competing interest exists. Corresponding author: Dana Ioana Cristea; Department of Physical Education, Sport and Physical Therapy, University of Oradea; email: danacristea07@yahoo.com Open Access License: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No- Derivatives 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and is otherwise in compliance with the license. abstract Background: Physical education may be thought of as a special form of education through one’s body which aims not only to fulfl biological purposes, but which also entails signifcant psychological and social issues. Starting from this point, the aim of the present study is to decrease the number of students exempted from physical education classes by asking them to fll in a survey before each class. Material and methods: The study was conducted in 4 schools from Oradea, over the course of 12 weeks of middle school classes. Results: A visible result was a decrease in the number of students exempted from physical education by 4 to 6 students. Surprisingly, the number of eighth graders exempted from physical education increased. Conclusions: Implementing surveys over a longer period of time would lead to signifcant results with regards to student attendance at physical education classes. Key words: physical education, middle school, student attendance, participation in PE.