Investigation of attitudes of high school students towards physical education and sports lesson (Siirt/Kurtalan example)

The aim of this study is to examine the attitudes of high school students towards physical education and sports lessons. The research group consists of 310 students randomly selected from 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade students studying in secondary education institutions affiliated to MOE in Siirt and Kurtalan districts in the 2020-2021 academic year. As a data collection tool, the Personal Information Form developed by the researcher to determine the demographic information of the participants, and the Physical Education and Sports Lesson Attitude Scale, which was created by Phillips and Silverman (2012) and adapted into Turkish by Kalemoğlu and others (2016). ix Reliability analyzes of the sub-dimensions of the student attitude scale were made. First of all, a research was carried out on the condition of providing the parametric test conditions in the comparison of quantitative variables, and whether the data were normally distributed or not was analyzed with the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test statistic. In the analysis, it was seen that the parametric test conditions were not met and Mann-Whitney U test was used for paired group comparison, and Kruskal Wallis test was used for triple and more than three groups comparison. Statistical analyzes were tested at 95% confidence level. The relationships between the physical education and sports lesson attitude scale sub-dimensions were analyzed with the Spearman correlation coefficient. According to the results of this study, it was seen that the majority of the students participating in the study gave positive answers to the items representing a positive attitude in the scale and negative answers to the items representing a negative attitude. This shows that students' attitudes towards PES course are highly positive. When the significant differences are examined according to the variables, the only variable that has a significant difference is the state of doing sports in their spare time. Students who do sports in their spare time have more positive attitudes towards PES than students who do not do sports in their spare time. Keywords: Attitude, sport, physical education