ÖNCÜ, Erman Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi - Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Yüksekokulu - Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Öğretmenliği Bölümü, Turkey , CİHAN, Hamit Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi - Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Yüksekokulu - Antrenörlük Eğitimi Bölümü, Turkey

The Development of Physical Education Lesson Attitude Scale for Preservice Classroom Teachers

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The purpose of the present study was to develop a new scale with acceptable reliability to measure the attitudes of preservice classroom teachers toward physical education lesson. Participants were 164 primary teaching program students from education faculty. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis conducted concerning the 40 items in the scale findings point to a single factor scale. Scale was reduced to 25. Item loadings are reported between 0,739 and 0,884. In order to test reliability of the scale, Cronbach Alpha scores and two-halves test correlation coefficients were checked. They were reported as 0,98 and 0,96 respectively. In conclusion; findings support the use of scale to investigate the attitudes of pre-service classroom teachers’ towards physical education lesson is a practicable scaling tool.

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Preservice classroom teacher , physical education lesson , attitude , validity , reliability

Dicle University Journal Of Ziya Gökalp Faculty Of Education

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