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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cho, Nam Ki

Titel

Korean middle school students' attitudes toward physical education and the relationship to their attitudes toward testing in physical education

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

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• The purpose of this study was to investigate Korean middle school students' attitudes toward physical education and toward testing in physical education. In addition, the relationship between these two attitudes was examined. The instrument developed in another study was adapted to measure Korean middle school students' attitudes toward physical education, while an instrument to assess their attitudes toward testing in physical education was developed in this study. Psychometric evidence of validity and reliability of the scores for both instruments was provided in the pilot study. Participants were 111 Korean middle school students. Two primary factors for both instruments were confirmed in the pilot study: enjoyment and usefulness, and two contextual factors were found in the instrument for attitudes toward physical education (curriculum and teacher) and in the instrument for attitudes toward testing in physical education (testing and fairness in testing). The G-C alpha (α) coefficients for both instruments were above .98, and scores in RMSEA, RMR, GFI, and AGFI indicated that the hypothesized factor structure for each instrument was fit to the observed data. The study to investigate the relationship between these two attitudes was conducted with 515 Korean middle school students. Descriptive analysis showed that the means for students' affect (enjoyment) and for the physical education curriculum were consistently or relatively higher than the other means, while the means for fairness in testing were consistently higher than those for testing. Pearson-product moment correlation coefficients (r) were calculated to measure the degree of association between the hypothesized variables. Correlation coefficients suggested that students' enjoyment and the physical education curriculum may be critical for Korean middle school students' attitudes toward physical education. The results suggested, based on the degree of association between “Usefulness-Fairness in Testing” and the subscales of the instrument for attitudes toward physical education, that fairness in testing could be a contextual factor for Korean middle school students' attitudes toward physical education.