The article reveals the importance of pedagogical control in the system of physical education. Ways to improve physical education based on the development of express methods of control as a necessary condition for operational management of the educational process of physical education of students, aimed at increasing the efficiency of this process and improving the health of students, have been identified. It has been established that this problem reflects the objective need of society for planned,
systematic and purposeful physical training of younger generations for practical life activities. The contingent of students in institutions of higher education is so diverse that the physical education program includes several departments with different tasks. There are students with very limited physical abilities and athletes of the highest international class. The difficulty of management in physical education is that we try to influence the self-governing system. Due to individual and temporal variations of the human condition, we do not always get the same reaction in response to the same influence, the
same training load can cause a different training effect. It is possible to ensure the development of the process in a certain appropriate direction only by correcting the initial actions - control of the urgent training effect. Therefore, the development of methods of urgent pedagogical control is an urgent task of both physical culture and the entire modern pedagogy. The problem of scientific improvement of the educational process is acute in all educational departments. At the current stage, unfortunately, a quarter of all first- and second-year students cannot withstand normal physical exertion during preparation for passing program standards according to the curriculum of higher education institutions.
В статті розкрито значення педагогічного контролю у системі фізичного виховання. Визначено шляхи удосконалення фізичного виховання на основі розробки експрес-методів контролю як необхідної умови оперативного управління освітнім процесом з фізичного виховання студентів, спрямованого на підвищення ефективності цього процесу та покращення здоров'я студентів. Встановлено, що ця проблема відображає об'єктивну необхідність суспільства у планомірній, систематичній та цілеспрямованій фізичній підготовці підростаючих поколінь до практичної
життєдіяльності.
