Analysis of the Relationship between Online Learning Activities and Academic Achievement of Physical Education and Sports School Students

This research, which was performed in order to determine the relationship between some activities in the online learning environment and their academic achievements of Physical Education and Sports School students, was designed in a relational scanning model. The research was conducted on the data of 444 students who attended online classes at a physical education and sports school of a state university in the spring term of the 2020-2021 academic year. Data used in the research were collected through "Aid for Learning Management System (ALMS)" and "Student Information System (SIS)" of the relevant university. The duration of watching the courses live and from the archive, the number of downloading the course documents and the duration of watching the course videos uploaded were obtained within the scope of online learning activities via ALMS;and the academic achievement scores of the students for these courses were obtained via SIS. As a result of the research, a positive and significant relationship was found between course attendance, the duration of watching the archived and uploaded course videos, the number of downloading course documents and students' gender and their academic achievement scores while there was no significant relationship between students' grade level and academic achievement scores. According to the significant correlations, it was seen that the duration of live course attendance and watching from the archive significantly predicted the academic achievement scores of the students while the duration of watching the course videos, the number of downloading the course documents and gender did not significantly predict the academic achievement scores of the students.

An analysis of the intention of students studying at physical education and sports school to use synchronous virtual classroom environments during the Covid-19 pandemic period

This study aims to analyze the intention of students studying at physical education and sports school to use synchronous virtual classroom environments during the Covid-19 pandemic period. The research was designed in a descriptive survey model with a quantitative approach. The study group of the research consists of 193 voluntary students studying at School of Physical Education and Sports in a State University in the spring semester of the 2020-2021 academic year. The data of the research were collected with the "Personal Information Form" and the "Synchronous Virtual Classroom Acceptance Scale" in order to determine the students' intention to use synchronous virtual classroom environments. It has been determined following the study that the intention of students to use synchronous virtual classroom environments is generally positive and these intentions are at higher level in the "Subjective Norm" and "Self-efficacy" sub-dimensions, and lower in the "Perceived Ease of Use" sub- dimension. We have found that the students' intention to use synchronous virtual classroom environments does not change significantly according to the variables of gender and the department they study, but changed significantly according to the variable of the class they studied while the students studying in the first year have more positive intentions to use the synchronous virtual classroom environments than the students studying in other classes. In addition, it has been concluded that the intention of using the synchronous virtual classroom environments of the students who have a personal computer and an internet-connected smart phone and the students who access the lessons from their home with a laptop computer is more positive than the other groups. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)