Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to investigate media literacy levels of physical education and sport teachers according to gender, age, marital status, educational status, occupational seniority, education level and duty place variables. The "Media and Television Literacy Levels" scale developed by Korkmaz and Yeşil (2011) was used to determine the media literacy levels of physical education and sports teachers in the study. The research model is a descriptive-scan mdel of general screening models. In this study, the general screening model was applied to the sampling group   by the "Random Sampling" method. The researcher's universe constitutes 628 physical education and sports teachers working in different educational levels in the provinces of Sakarya and Bartın. The sample of the research is composed of 244 voluntary physical education and sports teachers selected randomly from among the physical education and sports teachers in Sakarya and Bartın provinces. Data were analyzed by MANOVA test to examine media literacy levels according to the demographic characteristics of the participants. To determine the differences between the groups, the TUKEY test was used. It was found that the effect of the "marital status" variable on the subscales of "Media and Television Literacy Levels Scale" was significantly different in the findings of the research. Although the other variables did not differ significantly on the subscales of the "Media and Television Literacy Levels Scale", it was found that the mean scores differed in factor dimension. This study has been completed by searching the relevant literature and making proposals for the study.

Keywords: