Examining the Attitudes of the Students of Anatolian High Schools and Other High Schools towards Physical Education Classes


ALTINKÖK M.

2nd International Conference on Lifelong Education and Leadership for All (ICLEL), Liepaja, Latvia, 21 - 23 July 2016, pp.611-617 identifier

  • Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
  • City: Liepaja
  • Country: Latvia
  • Page Numbers: pp.611-617
  • Keywords: Physical Education, Attitude, Physical Education Class Attitudes, High School Education
  • Akdeniz University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine the attitudes of high school students towards physical education classes. The sampling of the study consisted of 217 female and 217 male students (a total of 434 students) who were studying at 9 th, 10 th, 11 th and 12 th Grades of Anatolian High schools and in other high schools that were later converted into Anatolian high schools. The "Physical Education Classes Attitude Scale", which was developed by Gulu and Gullin 2009, was used in order to determine the attitudes of the students towards Physical Education Classes. The scale consisted of 35 items and the validity and reliability studies of it were conducted. The students participated in the study voluntarily. The statistical package program was used to analyze the data and to find the computed values in the study. In order to determine the distribution of the variables, the frequency and percentage values were used. The "t" Test for Independent Variables was used in order to reveal the differences between the variables. The One-Way variance analysis, post-hoc Scheffe and Levene's Tests were used to find the relation between the parameters. It was determined in the study that the movement education, extracurricular social and sports activities, the contents and application styles of physical education classes, the viewpoint on physical education classes, the attitudes that are transferred from previous learning-teaching medium, and the differences in regional sports culture influence the attitudes of the high school students towards physical education classes in a positive or negative manner.