Abstract:
Students in physical education Sandafa high school, Bake high school and Walagaho of Sandafa
woreda .To achieve the intended objective of this study descriptive research method was used.
The primary data were collected through five scale questionnaire from students. The collected
primary data the main objective of this study was to assess the factors that affecting the
motivations of were analyzed in percentage, mean and standard deviations. Based on the
analysis made on the basis of the collected data, the findings of this study were identified. The
findings of this study were: school related factors like, absence of sufficient materials have been
provided for students from the school, absence of physical education program has been properly
settled in the school, absences of physical education materials that have properly been identified
and have been delivered during practical learning, absences of necessary physical education
materials, teachers related factors like, presences of workloads, numbers of periods that allotted
for the teacher beyond the working capacity of teachers, inadequate time management of to
involve students during lessons, absences of good relation with students and lack of providing
sufficient tasks, student related factors like, lack of interest towards physical education, absences
of doing all the skills with given time to practice and their learning motivation had affected the
motivations of students in physical education. Finally, based on the above findings
recommendations are given at the last part of this research paper.