Evaluation of Physical Education and Sports Candidate Teachers views on Distance Education

The aim of this study is to evaluate the views of Physical Education and Sports Candidate Teacher studying in sports education units of universities about Distance Education and to determine the relationship between them. A total of 148 teacher candidates, 79 (53.40%) female and 69 (46.60%) male, studying in different departments of the Physical Education and Sports School of Kafkas University participated in the study. IBM SPSS Statistics v22 package program was used in the statistical analysis of the data. The skewness and kurtosis test were used to test the data for normality and it was determined that the data did not have a normal distribution. In order to evaluate whether the data is homogeneous; "Anova-Homogenety of variance" test was applied and it was determined that the data were not homogeneous. It was observed that the total score average of the "attitudes towards distance education" of the Physical Education and Sports School students was 103.50 +/- 13.02. When examined in terms of gender, it was determined that the mean score of male students was 105.02 +/- 13.41 and that of female students was 102.16 +/-.12.60. When examined in terms of place of residence, 86 (58.10) students living with their families are 104.44 +/- 12.15, students living in student housing/own house 31 (20.90) are 100.70 +/- 15.95, 15 (10.10) in dormitories. 105.06 +/- 5.16 and lastly 102.37 +/- 16.33 points in 16 of the relatives (10.8) households were determined. When examined in terms of the department, it was found that the 43(49.3) department of Teaching was 102 +/- 78, the coaching department was 30(20.30), 103.36 +/- 8.15, and finally the 45(30.4) department was found to be 104.75 +/- 11.96. As a result; in the study, in which the opinions of the students studying in the sports education institutions of the universities about Distance Education are evaluated, it is seen that it is similar to the literature and is in an acceptable range.