1 TÜRKİYE PROFESYONEL LİGLERİNDE GÖREV ... - Spor Bilim

In order to gain a deeper understanding of students’ experiences, the qualitative
method was also conducted. Focus group discussion with students, individual interview with
students and teachers were carried out. An interview guide approach was used to structure the
interviews (19), and the length of the interviews averaged approximately 30 minutes.
Interviews were designed to gain a view of students’ perception of gender and whether
teachers’ approaches and interactions with boys and girls differed from each other.
Procedure
Data were collected over a 10-week period using a variety of data sources in two
eight-grade physical education classrooms of two physical education teachers. Two audio
taped teacher interviews, four audio-typed student focus group discussions (two groups for
girls and two groups for boys) and 20 audio-typed student interviews (10 with girls and 10
with boys), 19 class observations (10 in one classroom and 9 in one classroom) were
conducted during three months. Teachers conducted lessons involving tennis, gymnastics,
track and field and rhythmic activities.
Data Analysis
The first purpose of this study was to determine the levels of teacher-student
interactions for girls and boys. To accomplish this, the percentage of observed frequencies of
teacher-initiated statements and student-initiated statements were determined firstly. Then, the
direction and types of the interaction between teacher to students were determined for both
girls and boys in all types of teacher-student interaction (teacher-girls, teacher-boys, teacher-
group of boys, teacher-group of girls, teacher-whole class).
Content analysis was conducted to analyze qualitative data. Theme has been identified
for discussion by virtue of their frequency and their relevance to the focus of this study.
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