Factors affecting female students participation in physical education practical class in case of some selected secondary schools of horoguduru wollega zone oromia region

Abstract

The study was conducted on the factors affecting the female students’ participation in physical education practical class in the case of five selected secondary schools of HoroGuduruWellga zone. To achieve the intended objective descriptive survey method was used with quantitative and qualitative data collecting approaches for this study. Questionnaire, interview and observations were used as the data collecting instrument for this study. The collected data were analyzed into percentiles, mean and standard deviation. On the basis of analysis made of this study the findings of this study were identified. The findings of this study were the factors that affecting the female student participation in the practical class of physical education were teachers do not provide choice when teaching a physical education in practical class, parents and other influential people expect that female students do not active to do practical activities in physical education, testing the athletic ability of a student in front of colleagues can be very difficult, the possibility of girls humiliated in front of their peers, the lack of considering the importance of providing a learning environment that meets the needs of all female students, physical education lessons do not necessarily promote physical activity for girls, many girls reject an overly competitive teaching climate, it has been found that most females will not take part in a practical class and lack of motivation to improve a skill that is needed for physical education classes affect female participations, factors were decrease the attitude, decrease participation, decrease the involvement, decrease motivation and the confidence of female students participation in the practical class of physical education in the secondary schools and factors were highly affecting the participations of female in the practical class of physical in the secondary schools. The points that recommended for this study were: the factors should be reduced through the commutative efforts of teachers, principals’ department heads, parents and community, strategic plan should be designed and implemented to minimize the negative effect of the these factors and factors negatively affect female students participations should be identified and further plan should be done to reduced negative effect of the factors in advance from higher to lower level.