Assessment of Students’ Performance According to the Characteristics of the Respiratory Cycle

The authors consider the possibility of assessing the mental performance of students based on the results of registration of the characteristics of the respiratory cycle using the respiratory sounds recorder RRZ-Ts. The assessment of the performance of the presented method will reduce the time spent on passing some tests and counting the results compared to other methods. This paper examines the influence of stress and emotional stress on changes in mental performance and characteristics of the respiratory cycle. It is found that the parameters of the respiratory cycle change during the school day, the maximum values of uneven breathing are characteristic of the highest working capacity, an increase in mental performance with emotional stress was noted, and a number of gender differences in the characteristics of breathing patterns were found. The use of a specialized RRZ-Ts analyzer can contribute to an accelerated assessment of psychosocial risks arising during the educational process for their prevention and further prevention.