Abstract:
The aim of the study was to assess the factors affecting the participation of students in physical education class in the case some selected secondary schools of North Shoa Oromia regional state. Descriptive survey method was employed in order to answer the research questions of the study. The study was used purposive sampling techniques for PE teachers and school principals and stratified random sampling method for students to select samples from the total population. Data was collected through only questionnaires. The total samples size was taken from three schools and they totally were 360, which consisted of 8 school administration, 9 Physical Education teachers and 343 students. For quantitative data, the questionnaire was distributed to 343 sample students, nine PE teachers and eight school administrations. From selected schools, 192 students were males and 151 students were females. Those students were selected from grade 11-12. Self-administered questionnaire were used to collect the data. The questionnaire contains total of 51 items. The data were analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation by using spss version -20 software. The major identified problems were lack of motivation of PE teachers, lack of teaching materials, problem of large class size, teaching methodology, insufficient instructional time and the role of school administration and working condition of the school compound. The researcher recommended that the concerned bodies like ministry of education, regional education office weroda education office, PE teachers as well as students and school administration should show unreserved effort to provide and fulfill inadequate instructional resources and facilities as well as give training for PE teachers and teachers should create awareness on students by applying student centered teaching approach in order to motivate students in both practical and theoretical class are same the alternative solution to factors affecting the participation of students in physical education class
