Determination of the expectations of middle school students participating in physical education and sports activities from their families, school principals and teachersBeden eğitimi ve spor etkinliklerine katılan ortaokul öğrencilerinin aile, okul yöneticileri ve öğretmenlerden beklentilerinin belirlenmesi

Individuals’ living happily and according to social rules is related to good relations with each other and being helpful, respectful for human rights, honest and mentally and physically healthy. Physical education and sports activities can be a strong field of education ensuring the growth, development and behavior changes of students. Therefore, it is important for children to be directed to sports in early ages by families and educators. The expectations of children must be recognized in order to do sports healthily. The purpose of this research is to determine the expectations of Imam Hatip Secondary School and other Secondary School students from family, school principals and teachers regarding the participation to physical education and sports activities and to compare these expectations according to school type and gender. Data were acquired through a questionnaire. Data collection tool is composed of two parts. In the first part, there is a questionnaire named “Determining the expectations in attending to physical education and sports activities” which was developed by the researchers and demographic information belonging to the students can be found in the second part. A descriptive method was used in the research to find out the current situation. The universe of the research was composed of 2500 students studying in the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade at İmam Hatip and other Secondary Schools. Questionnaire form was applied to 400 volunteer students in the Serdivan Mehmet Demir Imam Hatip Secondary School and Serdivan Zübeyde Hanım Secondary School in Sakarya province selected with random method. SPSS 15.0 for Windows packet program was used in the analysis of the acquired data. Frequency analysis was used in determining percentage distributions and numbers of demographic information of the attendees. Chi-Square analysis was utilized in comparing the expectations of the participants from family, school principals and teachers during their participation to physical education and sports activities by the demographic variables. Significance level in Chi-Square analysis was determined as p