Examining the effects of physical and sports lessons associated with music on students attitudes

The current study aims to investigate the impact of the teaching technique which integrates Music lessons and Physical Education and Sports lessons with an interdisciplinary approach on students' attitudes towards the lessons. This experimental study implemented a pre-test-post-test control group design. The study group which comprised experiment (n=30) and control (30) groups was 60 fifth grade students studying at Toslak Sabir Erkin Middle School and Emişbeleni Middle School which are affiliated to Alanya Provincial Directorate of National Education in the 2021-2022 Academic Year. Convenience sampling method was adopted in the current study since the study group was chosen based on their availability and high rates of attendance of them. The experiment and control groups were selected randomly, according to the draw which was held between the A and B sections of the fifth graders and Section A of the schools became the experiment group whereas Section Bs were decided to be the control group. Various data collection tools implemented in the current study. Firstly, a demographic form was designed by the researcher to collect demographic information of the students. Then, Attitudes Towards the Music Lesson Questionnaire was used to measure the student attitudes to the Music lesson while the Attitudes Towards the Physical Education and Sports Lesson Questionnaire was applied to measure the student attitudes to the Physical Education and Sports lesson. This longitudinal study was implemented in twelve weeks. During the implementation process, Physical Education and Sports lesson was conducted according to the Annual Curriculum published by MoNE in the control groups whereas teaching technique which implemented an interdisciplinary approach was applied in the experiment groups in addition to the Annual Curriculum published by MoNE. At the end of the implementation process, the post-tests were given to the participants. Kolmogrov Smirnov test was applied in order to test whether the data obtained showed normal distribution, and mixed pattern Anova tests were applied after it was determined that the data showed normal distribution. In the study, the significance level was determined as p<0.05, and all calculations and analyzes were made using the SPSS 26.0 statistical package program. The present study compared the pre-test and post-test attitude scores of the participants in the experiment group who attended the Physical Education and Sports lesson with the teaching technique which implemented an interdisciplinary approach and the participants in the control group who attended traditional Physical Education and Sports lesson. The findings of the study demonstrated that the participants did not show any statistically significant differences in their attitudes towards the Music lesson, while they showed statistically significant differences in their attitudes towards the Physical Education and Sports lesson (p<0,05). Keywords: Interdisciplinary Approach, Music, Physical Education and Sports, Attitude