Physical Education Teachers’ Using of Teaching Styles Levels and Their Perceptions Towards Styles in Public and Private Schools in Turkey

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to determine the using of teaching styles of physical education teachers in public andprivate schools in Turkey and related to these styles to find out the value perceptions. The research was performedout with survey model. The research group consisted of simple random sampling method based on the probabilitysampling methods 2017-2018 Academic Year in Turkey in Kayseri province 109 of them work at public schools and47 of them work at private schools and totally 156 physical education teachers. As the data collection tool the“Physical Education Teachers Use of Teaching Styles and Perceptions of Styles Questionnaire”, developed byKulinna and Cothran (2003) and adapted to Turkish by Ince and Hunuk (2010), was used in the research. In theanalysis of the data the Arithmetic mean, standard deviation, independent t-test and variance analysis tests were usedfor repeated measurements. The meaningfulness level was adopted as α=0.05. As a result of the research, it wasdetermined that physical education teachers in public and private schools use teaching centered teaching styles.