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In this study, it was aimed to examine the attitudes of students who were placed in the Department of Exercise and Sports Sciences through central placement and who received practical training in the department's curriculum towards sports. The research is a descriptive study in the survey model in which quantitative data collection technique is used in terms of describing the attitude levels of the students of the Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences towards sports. The study includes 147 students studying at Izmir Democracy University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Exercise and Sports Sciences. In the study, the Attitude towards Sports Scale developed by Şentürk (2015) was used to determine the attitude levels of the participants towards sports. The 5-point Likert-type scale consists of three sub-dimensions: Interest in sports, living with sports, and active doing sports. The Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient of the scale was found to be r=.97. In addition, a personal information form prepared by the researchers was used to collect personal information in the study. Research data were analyzed in SPSS 26.00 package program. In the analysis of the data, descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation), t-test on independent groups,one-way analysis of variance test were used. attitudes do not differ according to gender, housing status and economic status; according to and licensed sports and the class variable, there was a difference between the attitudes towards sports. As a result, the attitudes of the students who were placed in the Exercise and Sport Sciences Department were positive, suggesting that this positive attitude may be due to their orientation as a profession.

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