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Thesis Type: Postgraduate
Institution Of The Thesis: Gazi University, Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Beden Eğitimi Ve Spor Öğretmenliği, Turkey
Approval Date: 2019
Thesis Language: Turkish
Student: SEVDA AKBULUT İNAN
Supervisor: Filiz Fatma Çolakoğlu
Abstract:
This study was conducted to examine the attitudes of gifted students and students with
normal development towards physical education and sports lessons. In this research, t search
model was used. The population of the research was composed of 985 gifted students who
received education in 5 Science and Art Centers (BİLSEM) in the central districts of Ankara
province and a total of 5339 normal development students between studying 10 state schools
selected by random method in these districts in 2018-2019 academic year. The sample of the
study consisted of 394 volunteer students with 141 gifted students who were educated in
BİLSEMs and 253 students with normal development educated in public schools. The
Personal Information Form, which was prepared by the researcher as a data collection tool
and used to determine the demographic information of the participants and the "Physical
Education Course Attitude Scale" composed of two factors as cognitive and affective
including 16 items which were adapted to Turkish by Kalemoğlu Varol, Ünlü, Erbaş and
Sünbül (2016) determined in accordance with the object of the research were used.
Kolmogorov-Smirnov Z test was used to test the normality assumptions regarding the
distribution of data collected from gifted students and students with normal development. In
this context, nonparametric statistical techniques have been used in the comparisons since
they do not provide the assumption of normality. Mann-Whitney U Test analysis was used
to determine the difference between the scores of the general and sub-factors of the attitude
scale according to the variables which are two groups within the demographic characteristics
of the students. The difference between the scores obtained from the general and sub-factors
of the attitude scale according to the variables which are more than two groups within the
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demographic characteristics of the students was examined by the Kruskal-Wallis H test. At
the same time, if there was a significant difference in Kruskal-Wallis H test, Mann-Whitney
U test was used to determine the difference between the groups. According to the results of
the research, it was found that there was a statistically significant difference between
cognitive attitudes and general attitudes of gifted students and students with normal
development towards physical education and sports lesson, and there was no significant
difference between affective attitudes. It was concluded that the cognitive and general
attitude scores of gifted students were lower than the cognitive and general attitude scores of
normally developing students.
Keywords : Physical Education, Sports, Genius, Attitude.