Investigation of factors predicting school climate perceptions of sports sciences students

The aim of this research is to examine the factors that predict the education school climate perceptions of undergraduate education in the faculties of sports sciences. Research is a due diligence study frequently used in educational science. This research, which has a descriptive study pattern, is a quantitative study in which the results are interpreted by analyzing the numerical data obtained by the survey technique. All sports science faculties in Turkey will be representative of all students studying in the faculty reached a sampling of targeted research, due to the global outbreak was limited to the province of Mugla. In this context, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University Faculty of Sport Sciences, which was determined with limited opportunities due to the global epidemic due to the appropriate sampling technique, constituted 1239 undergraduate students who continue their education under the umbrella of the Faculty of Sport Sciences. The research was carried out with the data obtained from 436 volunteer students who could be reached via distance education, and this number was recorded as the sample size of the study. The School Climate Scale for University Students, developed by Terzi (2015), a basic data collection tool, was used in the study where the variables of gender, class, department and type of education were determined by the personal information form prepared by the author. In the study, the Attitude Toward Sports Scale developed by Şentürk (2015) and the University Confidence Scale developed by Özdogan and Tuzun (2007) were used to determine students' attitudes towards sports and their confidence in the university. In the light of the findings obtained as a result of the parametric tests applied to the data, which are normally distributed and highly reliable, it was determined that the students' attitude towards sports and their confidence in the university positively affect their perceptions of the school climate. At the same time, it was determined that students' attitudes towards sports and their confidence in university are important predictors (60%) on their perception of school climate. As a result, it was suggested that it would be appropriate to support the attitudes towards sports and their confidence in the university positively by the academic and administrative staff in order to increase the perception of the school climate of the students studying in the faculties of sports sciences.