Comparative study on the avilabilty and utilization of physical education practical class between private and public secondary schools of jimma town.

Abstract

The main objective of this study was to identify the availability and utilization of PE material between Jire secondary schools, Seto secondary shools and Aba Buna secondary schools were taken from the government secondary schools side and Abifum secondary schools,Eldan secondary schools and Catholic secondary schools were taken from the private secondary schools side . To achieve the intended objectives of this study descriptive research method was used with quantitative and qualitative approaches. In this approach quantitative data were collected from sample respondents through five scale likerted close-ended questionnaire, in the qualitative approach qualitative data were collected from physical education teacher. The collected data were analyzed by descriptive statistical like frequencies, percentages, mean, standard deviation,t-test and infernicial stastics particularly pearson corrollation was used to give meaningful conclusions for the result of this study. On the basis of the analysis made of this study the findings of this study were identified. Therefore, the findings of this study were:the instructional materials for practical physical education that were available in the public secondary schools were very few foot balls,basket ball,hand ball and volleyballs and the availability of football,basket ball,hand ball and volleyball in the private were better than the public secondary schools,The private secondary schools werethat properly utilized physical education instructional materials more over there was significant difference between the government and private secondary schools in the availability of instructional materials, its utilization in teaching the practical class in physical education and the avilablity and utilizations of instructional materials in the private and the government secondary schools were not equal. Finally, recommendations,summary,conculusions were given on the basis of the above findings and are presented at the last part of this research content under chapter five.