The Four-Year an Investigation of Physical and Physiological Features of Students in a Physical Education and Sports Department
Abstract
Problem Statement: Student candidates who want to be a Physical
Education Teacher in Turkey should take special ability exams of Physical
Education and Sports Schools. In this exam, it is required to have a high
physical capability apart from a high level of special branch skills. For this reason, the students who pass and
start their education at physical education and sports schools either have a
good history of sports or they are active sportsmen or they have passed through
a good training period. In other terms,
they have high levels of physical and physiological capacity. But, the density
of the curriculum at physical education teaching departments at Physical
Education and Sports Schools, redundancy of theoretical courses which are
defined and forced by Higher Education Council in Turkey to all the Physical
Education and Sports Schools and from time to time the obligation to make a
choice between school and active sportsmanship pull students away from active
sportsmanship and regular training. After a dense curriculum program, the
majority of students prefer education instead of sport activities and thus,
when they reach their final year, they turn into sedentary people. This
contradiction in the education of physical education teachers which is a model
for the community and carries the task of selecting gifted people and directing
people to sports for sustaining a healthy and quality life is
thought-provoking.
Purpose of Study: In this study, it is aimed to measure and
evaluate some physical and physiological parameters of students attending
physical education and sports schools from the first year on until the fourth
year by taking the arguments given above.
Methods: 70
male, 50 female and in total 120 students attending to Afyon Kocatepe
University School of Physical Education and Sports took part in this study.
Some physical and physiological parameters of the students were measured for
three years in the Fall semester in November beginning from the first year on
and in their final year, the measurements were made in the Spring term in May.
Their weights, heights, body fat percentages, body mass indices and flexibilities,
vertical jumps, anaerobic powers and aerobic capacities were identified with
these measurements. Repeated measures analysis was used for statistical
evaluation. The results were evaluated between 0,01 and 0,05 levels.
Findings and Results: Body weights, BMIs, body fat percentages, flexibility
levels, anaerobic powers and aerobic capacities of students who go through an
intense and difficult exam to matriculate School of Physical Education and
Sports are at levels of sportsmen. These performance levels of students
decrease each passing year. These traits decline even to the levels of
sedentary people in the fourth year.
Conclusions and Recommendations: The
students of School of Physical Education and Sports have an intense syllabus
and the excess of theoretical courses prevent from regular training. Also, students in our country have to
prepare for a tough theoretical exam after graduating university in order to be
a teacher. This obligation moves them
away from sporting activities in their free times remaining form school. In the
light of this result, it is necessary to revise curriculums of Physical
Education and Sports Schools in our country which train students to be teachers
both for students, sportsmen and teaching staff.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Yucel Ocak
This is me
Publication Date
October 15, 2016
Submission Date
October 15, 2016
Acceptance Date
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Published in Issue
Year 2016 Volume: 16 Number: 65