The comparison of the secondary & high school students' attitudes towards physical education and sports (Sample of Bayburt)

In our survey, the attitudes of secondary & high school students in Bayburt towards physical education and sports were compared by a descriptive survey model. The target population of this study is 1998 students studying in some secondary and high schools in 2016-2017 academic year affiliated to the Ministery of National Education in Bayburt. The research sample is composed of 1205 voluntary students selected with purposeful sampling method from secondary and high schools in Bayburt province and its districts As a means of data collecting, a survey was used. In the first part of our survey, demographic features and in the second part Physical Education and Sport – Attitude Measurement (BESTO) which was revised and calculated by Demirhan and Altay (2001) as the Cronbach Alpha reliability co- efficient 0.93, classroom correlassion co-efficient 0.85, criterion validity co-efficient 0,83 took place. The statistical rates of data was calculated in SPSS 21,0 statistic program. When the variances were homogenous, t – test,one-way analysis of variance, and Scheffe test were used. When the variances were not homogenous, Dunnett T3 test was used. In the results of our work,we saw that the attitudes of students in secondary schools and high schools towards physical education and sports were at a very positive level. It was found that there is a significant difference among their attitudes towards physical education and sports as to the students' sex, age, the place they live, the type of their school they are studying at, the level of the grade they are studying, interests insports among the family members, permission of their parents for doing sports (P<0,05).On the other hand, no significant difference was observed among their attitudes towards physical education and sports according to the students' parents' educational backgrounds and their jobs, income levels, the academic success of the students, and also the illnesses or disablements they experienced before. (P>0,05) Key Words: Attitude, Secondary School, High School, Physical Education and Sports