The Indicator of Turkey's Appearance: a Relation Between Physical Education and Sport as Per Pisa-2015 Research Data

Abstract

An attempt to describe OECD's data on physical education, sports, and physical activity in the PISA 2015 study was made within Turkey and the OECD average. The document analysis technique was used in the study. In this context, the data of the study were obtained from the tables in the third report of the OECD's research entitled "Student welfare," which was conducted with the participation of 540 thousand students in 72 countries, including 35 member and 37 partner countries, based on the PISA 2015 exam. The following results were achieved in the study: It was observed that the participation rate of students of the 15 age group in Turkey in the weekly physical education lesson at school and the average of students who did exercise or sports before school were above the OECD average and that the average of students who did exercise or sports after school was below the OECD average. According to the results, it was observed that their socio-economic profile did not change students' life satisfaction. Non participats in physical activities exhibited lower bullying levels. Participation or non-participation in physical activities did not affect students' sense of belonging to the school in Turkey.