INVESTIGATION OF THE ATTITUDES DISTANCE EDUCATION OF THE FACULTY OF SPORT SCIENCE STUDENTS IN THE COVID-19 PERIOD

Abstract

In this study, it was aimed to examine the attitudes of the Faculty of Sport Sciences Students education in the period of COVID-19 according to gender, class, regular internet access status, courses attendance status, the device in which the courses were followed, the evnironment to attend courses and viewing distance education useful variables. In the research general survey model was used. Participants consisted of 98 volunteer students who were selected according to the random sampling method studying in the Department of Exercise and Sport Education for Disabled People at Malatya Inonu University Faculty of Sport Sciences. In the research The Attitude Scale for E-learning was used. The data analysis of the research was carried out in SPSS 22.0 statistics package program for Windows. Normality distribution was done by the Kolmogorov-Smirnov normality test. Differences between groups were determined using independent sample t-test (Independent Samples T-Test) and one-way analysis of variance (One-way ANOVA) and Post-Hoc LSD tests. Significance was accepted as (p <0.05). As a result of the research, it has been observed that the attitudes of the students of the Faculty of Sport Sciences towards distance education have significant differences according to gender, regular internet access status, the environment of attending classes, discomfort while listening to courses and finding distance education useful. The results of the research revealed that the students found the distance education applied in COVID-19 period beneficial.