The reality of the practice of employing electronic applications among physical education supervisors and teachers at the secondary stage in Dammam, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.pdf

Abstract

This study attempted to identify the actual implementation of electronic applications by Physical Education (PE) teachers in their teaching from the perspective of educational supervisors and educators in the eastern area. It also endeavored to detect the existence of statistically significant differences among the mediums of the study subjects’ estimates regarding the use of the educational applications to teach physical education courses to the middle grade schools. To attain the goals of this study, the researcher used the descriptive survey method and a questionnaire was constructed including two main axes: The first had  to do with implementing the electronic education applications to teach the physical education courses to middle grade schools, and it comprised 31 paragraphs divided into five sub-sections. The second is related to the real use of electronic education applications in teaching by P E teachers, and it included 31 paragraph divided into four sub-sections. These two axes were controlled, attested and proved their viability to be used, and they were applied to the study subjects, which comprised 215 individuals: 28 PE supervisors and 187 middle grade school PE teachers in the eastern area. The data were collected and analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The study reached significant findings, on the top of which are the following: 1-The general medium of the electronic education applications axis to teach the courses to middle grades estimated at 2, 60, at the hands of supervisors, whom considered it of a significant degree whereas the PE teachers estimated it at 2, 48 and gave it a “significant” position.  2- The general medium of the real use by  the middle grade PE teachers of the electronic education applications in teaching from the supervisors’ perspective reached “2,22” and with a degree of “quite used”, and from the PE teachers’ perspectives it leveled up to “2,26” and with a degree “quite used”.