Attitudes of College Women toward High School Physical Education Programs

Abstract

A revision of the Plummer attitude inventory and a background information questionnaire were administered to 1,126 freshman college women enrolled in the private four-year colleges in Iowa in September 1964. Attitude scores were determined and comparisons were made on the basis of background information. Significant differences in attitude toward physical education were found between those earning interscholastic athletic letters and those not earning letters, those participating in organized physical activity programs outside of school and those not participating in such programs, those from farms and those from cities, those from small high school graduating classes and those from large high school graduating classes, those who chose teaching careers and those who chose other careers, those who ratedselves above average in physical skills and those who ratedselves below average in physical skills, and those who enjoyedr high school physical education programs and those who did not. Significant differences did not exist between those who had physical education in high school and those who did not, those who had a woman teachingr high school physical education classes and those who had a man, those who took physical fitness tests and those who did not, those who attended parochial high schools and those who did not, those from small towns and those from cities, those who had physical education two hours or less a week and those who had physical education four hours or more a week, and those from Iowa and those from other states.