Teachers’ Attitude towards Sports Participation by Students in Delta State, Nigeria

Emmanuel Akarah, Blessing Obodo Omoghene, Favor Okagbare Tayire

Abstract


The study ascertained the attitude of teachers in urban and rural secondary schools towards sports participation among students in Delta state, Nigeria. The descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. A 14-item, 4-point scale instrument (questionnaire) with a reliability index of 0.68 was used for data collection. A sample of 380 respondents (teachers) was drawn using multi-stage sampling procedure from ten out of 167 secondary schools in four of the eight Local Government Areas in the study area. The data generated was analyzed using the t-test, and the findings revealed that, there is no significant difference between urban and rural teachers’ attitude towards sports participation among secondary school students in Delta Central Senatorial District of Delta State.


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