Survey on the Communication Skills that the College Students of School of Physical Education and Sports Perceived from the Teaching Staff

Year 2014, Volume 2 - Issue 1, 54 - 67, 16.03.2014

Serkan Hacıcaferoğlu

https://doi.org/10.14486/IJSCS55

Abstract

Survey on the Communication Skills that the College Students of School of Physical Education and Sports Perceived from the Teaching Staff

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine level of communication skills perceived by college students of School of Physical Education and Sports (SPES) from teaching staff. The sample of the study, conducted by using screening model, consisted of 633 SPES college students. Research data were collected by “Assessment Scale for Communication Skills". Arithmetic mean, t-test, one-way variance analysis (ANOVA) and Tukey test were used in the study. Consequently, it is determined that students in the sample perceived positive communication skills from teaching staff at moderate-level. It is observed that, except variable of respect dimension in the department where they receive education, there wasn’t any statistically significant difference in the students' gender variable with respect to the dimension of the democratic attitude, whereas there were significant differences in all lower dimensions according to the class variable. It is also concluded that college students of coaching and management department perceived more communication skills from the teaching staff compared to the students of teaching department in respect dimension, and freshmen and the sophomores perceived more communication skills positively with more points compared to the other college students with respect to the dimensions of respect, expression, values, motivation and democratic attitude.

Keywords

Communication, Communication Skills; BESYO students; Perception.

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