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Title:
Relationship
among
Qualifications,
Experience,
Gender,
Professional Attitudes, and Performance of Directors of
Physical Education in Administration of Sports Activities in
Government Colleges
Pages: 224
Researcher: Salahuddin Khan
Advisor: Professor Dr. Muhammad Shah
University: Gomal University Dera Ismail Khan (Pakistan)
Year: 2008
Subject Area: Sports Sciences
Degree:
PhD in Education
The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship of experience,
qualifications, and gender with professional attitudes and performance of
Directors of Physical Education working in government colleges of North West
Frontier Province (NWFP) Pakistan.
Seven Research questions were formulated in order to find out; (a) is there any
relationship of professional attitudes with experience, qualifications, and
gender of Directors of Physical Education, (b) Is there any relationship of
ivPerformance with experience, qualifications, and gender of Directors of
Physical Education?(c) is there any relationship of performance (General
Qualities) aspects of DPEs with their experience, qualifications, and gender,
(d) is there any relationship of performance (Content Knowledge) aspects of
DPEs with their
experience, qualifications, and gender, (e) is there any
relationship of performance (Classroom Management) aspects of DPEs with
their experience, qualifications, and gender, (f) is there any relationship of
performance (Coaching Performance) aspects of DPEs with their experience,
qualifications, and gender, and (g) is there any relationship of performance
(Professional and Personal Qualities) aspects of DPEs with their experience,
qualifications, and gender.
For data collection two types of instruments were used (a) professional
attitudes having 57 items and (b) DPEs performance evaluation having 64
items. These instruments were developed from the available literature
(Baumgartner et al (1995), Corbin B. Charles et al (2004), Bucher A. Charles
(1978), Mathews K. Donald (1978), Best W. John (1977), Safrit J. Margaret
(1981), Johnson L. Barry et al (1988) and Shah M (2004), and (Evaluation of
Student Teaching Final Report form of Towson University Maryland), and
from different instruments already used for attitude measures and performance
evaluation. In order to make the instrument reliable, both the instruments were
send to 70 experts all over the country (mostly from NWFP the province where
vthe study was conducted, from Sindh province, Punjab province and from
Islamabad the Capital of Pakistan), out of which 50 responses were received.
The responses were analyzed for reliability in statistical program
“STATISTICA”. For professional attitudes instrument out of 57 items, 39 items
were selected as reliable having the Cronbach alpha 0.90. Similarly for
performance evaluation of DPEs instrument out of 64 items, only 41 items
were selected as reliable having the Cronbach alpha 0.94. The professional
attitudes scale having 39 reliable items was administered among 90 Directors
of Physical Education working in 72 different colleges in NWFP, while
performance evaluation scale having 41 reliable items was administered
among 1800 students of graduate level studying in the colleges of NWFP.
Responses were quantified with 1= strongly disagree, 2= disagree, 3= neutral,
4= agree, and 5= strongly agree. In professional attitudes scale the scores
were revised in case of items showing negative attitudes. In order to analyze
the data Pearson Product Moment of co-efficient of correlation “r” was used
as statistical technique. Main findings of the study were as follows: (a) the
professional attitudes of Directors of Physical Education relationship with
experience, qualifications, and gender were not significant. (b) The
performance of Directors of Physical Education relationship with experience
was found insignificant. Similarly, qualifications and gender were also found
insignificant when correlated with the performance of Directors of Physical
viEducation. (c) The relationship of performance (General Qualities) aspects
with experience, qualifications, and gender of Directors of Physical Education
were not significant. (d) The performance (Content Knowledge and teaching
skills) aspects were found insignificant when correlated with experience, and
gender of Directors of Physical Education, while (Content Knowledge &
teaching skills) aspects of performance of Directors of Physical Education
were positively correlated with qualifications. (e) The performance
(Classroom Management) aspects were positively correlated with experience
and qualifications; on the other hand it was negatively correlated with gender
of Directors of Physical Education. (f) Coaching aspect of performance was
not significantly correlated with experience, and qualifications of Directors of
Physical Education. On the other hand (Coaching Performance) aspects were
negatively correlated with gender (Female) of Directors of Physical
Education. (g) No significant relationships were found between performance
(Professional and Personal Qualities) aspects of Directors of Physical
Education with their experience, qualifications, and gender. |
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