Assessment of foreigner students' attitudes towards the physical education and sport

This study was conducted to determine the attitudes of foreigner students toward the physical education and sport. In the survey method this research universe has been constituted 448 students from 34 country who is educated in Mustafa Germirli Anadolu Imam Hatip High School opened in Kayseri in 2006-2007 education year. The sampling of this research has been constituted 241 students from 10 country selected randomly by means of sampling method aforesaid school in 2008-2009 education year. In this research Physical Education and Sport Attitude Scale (PESAS) developed by Demirhan and Altay (2001) had been used as data collection tool. Data have been investigated with Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test whether they feature normal distribution or not and at the end of this investigation data feature normal distribution and one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) has been used to compare triad or more cluster. To determine varieties' source of one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) results which are found as significant, Tukey HSD multi comparison test has been used and significance level has been taken as 0.05. Generally students' attitudes relating to physical education and sport are found at positive level. Moreover it is found that there are statistically differences between variable of the students' attitudes relating to physical education and sport from countries where they came (P < 0.05). According to the students' age variable there is not found any differences between their attitudes relating to physical education and sport (P > 0.05). © Sila science. all rights reserved.