Open AccessThe Self-Perceived Subject-Specific Professional Competencies of Slovenian Physical Education Teachers in Different Working Environments
Author(s) -
Marjeta Kovač,
Bojan Leskošek,
Gregor Jurak,
Miloš Tul
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
collegium antropologicum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1848-9486
pISSN - 0350-6134
DOI - 10.5671/ca.45.3.5
Subject(s) - likert scale , psychology , perception , subject (documents) , physical education , test (biology) , applied psychology , scale (ratio) , medical education , pedagogy , medicine , computer science , developmental psychology , geography , paleontology , cartography , neuroscience , library science , biology
This cross-sectional study was designed to analyse the differences in the subject-specific competencies of Slovenian Physical Education (PE) teachers according to their physical working environment. The participants, 681 Slovenian PE teachers, evaluated their professional subject-specific competencies (n=40) on a four-level Likert scale and two factors of their physical working environment (size of sports facilities and their equipment) with a self-administered questionnaire. Differences in their self-perceptions about subject-specific competencies between those working in good conditions and those working in poorer conditions were identified with the Mann-Whitney test for independent samples, and Cliff’s delta was used to estimate the size of the differences. The results show that higher perceptions of subject-specific competencies of PE teachers are mainly affected by the equipment of sports facilities, not their size; therefore, local communities and the state should ensure that all schools have roughly equal well-equipped sports facilities.