The analysis of pyhsical education and sports teachers' perspectives on distance education classes of physical education and sports: A mixed method research

The goal of this research is to investigate physical education and sports teachers' perspectives on physical education and sports classes, which is heavily practice-based, during distance education period. The research has been done with triangulation method. The quantitative data is collected via attitude scale while qualitative data is collected via semi-structured interviews. 90 physical education and sports teachers have volunteered in the research, 9 of which take part in qualitative part of the study and the remaining 81 volunteers take part in quantitative part of the study. The quantitative analysis of study has been done via SPSS 20.0 package program's definitive statistic methods, independent samples t-test and one way ANOVA variant analysis. The qualitative analysis of the study has been done via descriptive and content analysis. According to quantitative results, the attitudes of physical education and sports teachers about distance education are on the medium-level. The attitude analysis towards distance education based on age variables has demonstrated that there is a meaningful difference between volunteers aged 23-29 and volunteers aged over 40, which is in favor of the volunteers aged 23-29. According to qualitative results, three categories (Distance education, physical education classes via distance education, technical competence), 6 themes and 14 sub-themes have been identified. In accordance with these results, it is suggested that pyhisical education and sports classes should be planned both with distance education and face-to-face classes in order to ensure the most important achievement of physical education and sports class; active and healthy life, students should open their webcam to give feedback and ease the classroom management for teacher, parents' sensitivity should be raised with right planning of assesment and evaluation criteria and teachers should participate in practice based vocational trainings in order to integrate up-to-date technological advance to their classes.