Determination of Faculty of Sport Sciences Student’xxs Media Liteacy Levels (Example of Ankara Province)


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Erdeveciler Ö., Uyar Y., Sunay H., Atlı A.

IOSR Journal of Sports and Physical Education (IOSR-JSPE), cilt.4, sa.05, ss.51-60, 2017 (Hakemli Dergi)

Özet

The purpose of this research is to determine the media literacy levels of students at the faculties of sport sciences in Ankara. The universe of the research conducted in accordance with the descriptive relational screening model is composed of approximately 1300 students who are educated at the faculties of sport sciences in Ankara. The sample of the study consists of 148 female students (41.9%), and 205 males (58.1%), all of whom were randomly selected in the mentioned universe. ‘’The Media Literacy Level Determination Scale’’ developed by Karaman and Karataş (2009) has been used as a means of collecting data in the research by adapting it to the faculty of sport sciences students. In the analysis of the data, variance analysis and t-test were used to compare the differences between the arithmetic means and group means. The Cronbach Alpha Coefficient was calculated as 904 in the reliability study for the general population. As a result, media literacy levels of sport sciences faculty students in Ankara were found to be high.