The Factors Affecting Students Participation In Physical Education And Sport Programin Jitu Preparatory School, Nekemte City, East Wollega, Oromia, Ethiopia (original) (raw)

This study is attempted to assess the factors that affecting the participation of students in physical education and sport program in Jitu preparatory school. Samples were taken from grade 9 up to grade 12 students.138 students,three school leaders and one PE teacher were selected by using stratified and simple random samplingtechnique. The "Attitudes toward Physical Activity Scale" (APAS) (Mok et al., 2015) was used in this study which was designed in English for larger global projects. A validated, self-developed, structured questionnaire for socioeconomic , environmental factors and facility checklist were used to generate data for the study. Self-made structured interview also used to collect data from school principals and PE teacher. Sport materials and facility safety inspection checklist was applied. Research reliability was measured by Cronbach's alpha test; α = 0.87. Finally, the data was analysed via descriptive statistics (frequency and percent). The analysis shows that the socioeconomic status of parents, environments, attitudes of family toward participation of PE, lack of adequate material and facilities,and school compound was not conducive for students to participate inPE and sportin the study area.

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