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aim of Turkish National PE curriculum has been to provide opportunities for developing
both skill-related and health related components of students. However, it has been
observed that the current PE program content could not attain either health-related
objectives (12) or skill-related objectives (13, 14). As a result, students may not develop
positive attitudes toward PE. Furthermore, negative attitudes might result from not
enjoyable teaching methods, not providing a safe environment for risk taking or equal
access for all students, or not the nature of the sport (4). For this reason, these factors may
be investigated to clearly define in the school physical education programs by the
researchers.
Although, the differences between male and female students’ attitudes toward PE
were statistically significant with respect to general attitudes, their mean scores were very
close to each other. Different studies revealed that boys had more positive attitudes than
girls (5, 7). On the other hand, Ryan et al. (2003) found the significant differences
between attitudes and gender in favour of girls (9). The primarily reason of the findings
might be that traditional activity based PE programs have been applied with the same
way in all region of Turkey. Another reason might be that classroom teachers are
responsible for PE lessons in many schools in the first level of primary education (14)
and students meet the PE educators at the second level of primary education. It would
therefore appear that girls and boys may have a little opportunity to develop positive
attitudes toward PE in the school period. Additionally, large number of students,
inadequate facilities and poor participation rates may be other typical hindrances to
quality and quantity of PE (15). It was indicated that the numbers of sport facilities and