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was to investigate students’ experiences in physical education classroom focusing on gender-
stereotyped beliefs.
Methods
The research was conducted during the 2003-2004 summer semester. Participants in
this study consisted of two physical education teachers and 32 eight-grade students from one
private school that situated in suburban of Ankara in Turkey. Our attention was focused on
this age group, as it is well known that, with adolescence, social environmental factors and
biological development lead to a changing of perception and behavior. Besides of this, in
tenth and eleventh grade physical education lesson is overwhelmingly ignored.
Instruments
The modified version of Teacher-Student Interaction (TSI) form was used during
classroom observations to record (1) the frequencies of student and teacher initiated
interactions, (2) to whom teacher-initiated interactions were directed (to individual students,
small groups, or the class as a whole), and (3) the nature of the teachers’ instructional
statements (general or specific feedback, positive or negative instructional feedback) (17).
One way to study classroom interactions is through the use of the interactions for sex
equity in classroom teaching (INTERSECT) observational instrument, developed by Sadker
et. al. (1984). This instrument aids in the conversion of general classroom interactions into
organized, measurable elements (18).
A slightly modified observational instrument with the combination of first two part of
TSI and INTERSECT was developed for this study. The present observational instrument
involved coding teacher student interactions by (a) initiation: teacher or student; (b) receiver:
student, class, group, or teacher with gender; (c) evaluative type: praise, criticism,
remediation and acceptance.
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