Abstract:
Student attitudes towards physical education could either degenerate or improve during their years at school without teachers being aware of such changes. The general objective of this study was to investigate the attitude of students to ward learning physical education in selected secondary schools of Buno Bedele Zone and four specific objectives were addressed. For research design of this study, Cross sectional survey type of descriptive method is strongly believed to be the most appropriate method to address the intended purpose of this study, the attitude of students towards physical education. Among Buno Bedele secondary schools three schools were selected by lottery method and 392 study participants were taken by using simple random sampling technique from each. Both primary and secondary data were used as the major source of this study; the data were gathered by using a questionnaire and analyzed by using SPSS 24. Findings of the study were shown as students of the zone have positive attitude towards physical education in base of overall benefit terms, have medium positive attitude (3-4) or agree level in respect to curriculum of PE towards to the course and in terms of social custom(Parent, culture and religion).Based on attitude towards physical education is labeled at agree (3-4) level this means it is at medium positive attitude and it was identified as significant relationship between students attitude towards physical education and students’ academic performance. It was recommended if the Minister of education, school administrators, and teachers work on improving students’ attitude towards physical education by making the course more planned, more attractive by incorporate different dancing and others beauty exercise to increase students’ academic performance and the minister of education gives additional time to physical education class to increase students attitude to high positive attitude towards physical education in relation to curriculum.
