An Investigation into the Familiarity of Physical Education Experts with Historical, Social and Cultural Aspects of Olympic Games
Journal Title: Choregia - Year 2014, Vol 10, Issue 2
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to survey An Investigation into the Familiarity of Physical Education Experts with Historical, Social and Cultural Aspects of Olympic Games. 120 of the physical education experts (The members of physical education, the managers of the Ministry of Sport and Youth, The managers of physical education in the Ministry of Education) answered to a researcher made questionnaire on familiarity with different aspects of Olympic Games in order to determine their familiarity with historical, cultural and social aspects of Olympic. The mentioned questionnaire (15 social questions, 14 historical questions, 11 cultural questions) was constructed through a guide study and making subsequent revisions and editions. The opinions of the scope of experts were used in order to determine face and content validity and chronbach’s a was used in order to determine the reliability of the questionnaire. Appropriate descriptive and inferential statistics (ANOVA oneway, MANOVA and the Scheffe Hoc test) were used. The findings demonstrated that the viewpoints of the members of the physical education were significantly different from those of the other two.
Authors and Affiliations
Mohammadi Sardar (PhD)| Faculty Member of University of Kurdistan (PhD), Department of Physical Education and Sport Science, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran, Seyyed Ιman Ghaffarisadr (MA)| Department of Physical Education and Sport Science, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran, Salehi, Nasim (MA)| Department of Physical education, Science and research Branch, Islamic azad University, Sanandaj, Iran
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