THE ANALYSIS OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVES ON DISTANCE EDUCATION CLASSES OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS: A MIXED METHOD RESEARCH

Abstract

The goal of this research is to investigate physical education and sports teachers’ perspectives on
physical education and sports classes, which is heavily practice-based, during distance education
period.
The research has been done with triangulation method. The quantitative data is collected via attitude
scale while qualitative data is collected via semi-structured interviews. 90 physical education and
sports teachers have volunteered in the research, 9 of which take part in qualitative part of the study
and the remaining 81 volunteers take part in quantitative part of the study. The quantitative analysis
of study has been done via SPSS 20.0 package program’s definitive statistic methods, independent
samples t-test and one way ANOVA variant analysis. The qualitative analysis of the study has been
done via descriptive and content analysis.
According to quantitative results, the attitudes of physical education and sports teachers about
distance education are on the medium-level. The attitude analysis towards distance education based
on age variables has demonstrated that there is a meaningful difference between volunteers aged 23-
29 and volunteers aged over 40, which is in favor of the volunteers aged 23-29. According to
qualitative results, three categories (Distance education, physical education classes via distance
education, technical competence), 6 themes and 14 sub-themes have been identified.