Comparison of attitudes of general high school and religious oriented high school students related with physical education and sport lessons

The objective of this research is, comparing the measured attitudes of students in general high school students, who receive general education and the students in religious oriented high school students, who receive religious education related with physical education and sport lessons, in accordance with the independent variables derived from the personal information of the students and their families and to identify whether there is a meaningful difference between them or not.The population of the research is formed by 19245 students receiving education in the general high schools and religious oriented high schools in Yenimahalle town of Ankara province, in the academic year of 2009 ? 2010. 1151 female and 822 male students selected from 7 general high schools and 2 religious oriented high schools through random selection method have participated in the research and all these students have volunteer characteristic.5 point likert attitude scale of Physical Education and Sport Lessons, which was developed by Demirhan and Altay (2001) has been used as data collection tool in the research. The data were processed and calculated by means of SPSS 15,0 packet program. In order to determine if there is any difference between the attitudes of the students and from which group does the difference source, t-test is applied in the statistical processes. For all the statistical calculations the significance level was assumed as 0,05.According to the research results; when the measured attitudes of students in general high school, who receive general education and the students in religious oriented high school, who receive religious education related with physical education and sport lessons; statistically meaningful difference was observed between the attitudes of male students who receive general education and the male students who receive religious education, between the attitudes of female students who receive general education and the female students who receive religious education, between the attitudes of students who receive education in general high schools regarding their gender, between the attitudes of students who receive education in religious oriented high schools regarding their gender, between the attitudes of all students who were taken in the scope of the research, between the attitudes of students who have an individual in their family doing physical exercise regarding their school where they receive education, between the attitudes of students who state opinion as that they can not reserve time for physical exercise because of the density of the lessons regarding their school where they receive education.No statistically meaningful difference was observed between the attitudes of students in general high school and the students in religious oriented high school regarding their school types, their ages, their parents? education levels, between the attitudes of the students don?t have an individual in their family doing physical exercise regarding their school where they receive education, between the attitudes of the students who assume that their teachers are not satisfactory, between the attitudes of the students who assume that gymnasium, sports courts and sport materials are insufficient, between the attitudes of the students who assume the point of view that there is no physical education teacher regarding their school where they receive education.Key Words: Physical Education Lesson, Attitude, General High School and Religious Oriented High School.