Determination of attitudes of the secondary school students who are studying at imam hatip schools and normal schools regarding the physical education course (Ankara province example)

The purpose of this study is to compare and evaluate attitudes of imam hatip schools and secondary schools students towards physical education and sports lesson. Totally 1867 students, who are selected randomly from 5 secondary schools and 4 imam hatip secondary schools fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grade were participated to this study. Survey method was used to collect data. Demographic data are covered in the first part of the survey, in the second part the scale of physical education and attitude which is revised Demirhan and Altay (2001) is used. SPSS (16) statistics programme used to evaluate the data and the level of significance was taken as (p<0.05). Kolmogorov- Smirnov test was done since determining whether the data show normal distribution or not. It was determined that the data is not show parametric distribution. Because of that Non-parametric analysis methods were used. The frequency analyses were performed to determine the percentage of demographic data and survey items. After the normality test in comparing the attitudes of the physical education course with two variables α= 0.05 level of significance for two independent groups Mann Whitney U test, for three and above groups Kruskal-Wallis test was performed. According to research findings, when participants' scores on physical education and sports lessons were examined not a remarkable difference was found out regarding type of school and the level of education of the mother (p>0,05). However, a significant difference was observed when gender, level of class, school achievement level, educational background of father, level of income of the family, whether or not their parents allow them to do sports and whether or not there are somebody is sportive in their family was found out (p>0,05). Cronbach alfa reliability coefficient, in-class correlation coefficient and criterion validity coefficient were calculated respectively 0.93, 0.85, 0.83. Key Words: Attitude, Physical Eduaction and Sports, Secondary Schools