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Recreation Knowledge Test Development, Validity and Reliability Study
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purpose of this study is to develop a "Recreation Knowledge Test"
with the target of testing the knowledge related to quality leisure and
recreation titles, which are taught to the students under the
"Recreation" course provided as mandatory or selective in all
departments in Sports Sciences Faculties and Physical Education and Sports
Colleges of our country except the Recreation Departments, and thus enabling
the determination of the lack of knowledge among the students who take this
course and providing the academicians, who teach the lecture, with the
opportunity to develop a more qualified course planning. The universe of the
research was set around 670 students who took the compulsory recreation course
at Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University, Faculty of Sports Sciences, Department of
Sports Management, between 2016-2017 and 2020-2021 academic terms. Criterion
sampling method, one of the purposeful sampling methods, was used to determine
the sample group of the research, and a sample group was formed by enrolling
300 students. The study has the feature of descriptive research in that it
reveals a current situation based on the findings obtained from the developed
test. Before starting the analysis of the data, RStudio 5.4.1 (R Core Team,
2019) was used as part of data cleaning. In this direction, the “PerFit” package was used to
remove ineligible individuals. In the analysis of the data, SPSS 21 and TAP
14.7.4 (Test Analysis Program) software were used. Based on the data obtained
from a group of 300 people, the mean item difficulty of the RBT consisting of
25 questions was found as 0.62; mean item discrimination was found as 0.33 and
KR-20 value was found as 0.69. These findings show that the developed
achievement test consists of items with close to mean item difficulty level and
good discrimination level, and that the test can obtain reliable results. As a
result, an achievement/knowledge test was developed that can provide valid and
reliable measurements that can contribute to the field of recreation concept/discipline
at undergraduate level. Testing the basic recreation knowledge acquired through
the recreation course is of great importance in achieving the goal of bringing
recreation awareness to the individuals who make up our society.
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Declaration of conflicts of interest
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.Corresponding author email
sahanbirol@hotmail.co.ukLead author country
- Turkey
Lead author job role
- Higher Education Lecturer
Lead author institution
Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University, Faculty of Sport SciencesHuman Participants
- Yes