Adolescents’ Physical Education Literacy Level Due Developmental, Humanistic and Fitness Factors.

Abstract

Study Focus:This study only aimed at evaluating adolescents' physical education literacy level due developmental, humanistic and fitness factors, cased at four selected senior high schools in Bo, Southern Sierra Leone, West Africa.Methods:Adolescents' physical education literacy level questionnaire (APELQ) was adopted and pre-tested as research instrument for testing the parameters.The variables were scaled using One-Sample t-Test of IBM-SPSSv.23Statistics, witha sampled size of110participants, meanage of[15.5±3.5]ranged from (12-19)years, were selected using stratified and simple random sampling methods.Results: The evaluated adolescents' physical education literacy statistical testresults showeda significant difference in meanand frequency (F) scores for all tested variables with developmental factors scored lowest 23.8±5.9with a frequency of 143of pre-test and fitness factors scored highest36.0±4.9with a frequency of 216of pre-testin tables 2 and 6 respectively.The resultswere scaled @ 2-tailed significance of *p<0.000 and **p<0.001.Conclusion and Recommendation:It was concluded that,agood number of adolescents lack the basic literacyof physical education asslated in their calculated values and responses.Giving due attention to the teaching and learning of Physical Education in schools, was strongly recommended by the researchers.