Özet:

The purpose of this study is to determine the level of sports information according to various branches of primary school teacher candidates. For his purpose, the test of the detection about level of sports information on athletics, basketball, football, volleyball, handball, wrestling, racket sports and winter sports, has been applied to 92 (49 female and 43 male), teacher candidates, studying in the Department of Primary School Teaching, Education Faculty of Erzincan University, and took the courses such as physical education, teaching game and sports culture . Obtained data has been applied the analysis of normality, Mann-Whitney U, and Kruskal- Wallias-H tests by SPSS package program. Over 100 points for the evaluation, significant differences (p <0.05) were found between groups according to their gender and their following sporting events. In general, achievement scores appear to be under 50 points for all groups. As a result, primary school age is crucial because the fundamentals of sports training are taken in this period. If primary school teachers do not have sufficient knowledge in the fields of sports, children will be deprived of the requirements for physical education and sport in this critical period. In addition, the country will have inevitable problems about training athletes. Therefore, more comprehensive and more practical courses in physical education and sports fields are recommended to the teacher training program in primary school teaching department.

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