Abstract
The 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.