ATTITUDE OF THE SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS AND SPORTSCHOOLS STUDENTS IN THE SPORT DEPARTMENTS TOWARDS THE QUANTITATIVE CLASSES (SAMPLE ELAZIĞ)

Attitudes and behaviours are usually considered as a positive or negative attitude towards an object which is dealt with, a situation or an event of any person. And the education in this context, however, can be expressed as a 1164 Eyüp GENÇ-Hüseyin Ç. BATMAZ-Zeki COŞKUNER-Ragıp PALA-Vedat ÇINAR-Süreyya Y. BİÇER process of taking forward the individuals and the communities to a proper way of life with a purpose and of conveying the attained knowledge, skills and values in a planned way to the next generation and in the meantime as the changing process of the human behaviours through experiences. The behaviours of teachers have a significant impact in having the students gain a positive attitude, in developing their success identity, in having the student be aware that s/he himself is the centre of the change. The purpose of this study is to determine the attitudes of the students of sports departments at Fine Arts and Sports High Schools towards the science and mathematics classes. The population of the study are the students of the Sports departments at the Fine Arts and Sports High Schools. And the sampling are the Elazig Fine Arts and Sports High School, the total of 116 persons, of which 73 per cent were male and 43 per cent were female students. At the end of the research the data were analysed using SPSS 15.0 program, and the significance level of 0.05 was adopted for the validity of the data in statistical terms. As a result of this study, it was observed that the students in general were prejudiced against science and math classes with the idea that they could not be successful. In addition, based on the idea that the courses were difficult, it was observed that they also were indifferent towards these courses. It was understood that preparing for sports competitions and going out of the province for tournaments, negatively affected their motivation in the quantitative classes.