COMPARISON OF PHYSICAL FITNESS LEVELS BETWEEN PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND MUSIC STUDENTES OF HOSNNA COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION,HADIYYA,ZONE,SNNPR,ETHIOPIA

Abstract

This study attempted the comparison of physical fitness levels between physical education and music students of hosanna college of teacher education hadiya zone,SNNPR,Ethiopia.Physical fitne ss, especially health related physical fitness is one aspects closely associated with good health. Pa rticipation in regular physical activities is rapidly decreased specially in the college. In collag e level professional physical education courses practical and theoretical are offered for both phys ical education and music only.to this research and dependant variables of physical fitness and cont rol variables' such as sex difference for group age, weight, height, attitudentt, academic achievem ent, balanced diet, and other external factors. To attain this objective 80 research subjects are sele cted from third year physical education and music group students as the subject of the research fro m total population of 2407 of college students both by simple random and purposive sampling meth od were selected, and the data were collected through measure by their respective measuring devi ce and procedures.To do this qusi experimental was designed and statistical tools of independe nt sample t test and one sample t-testwith 5% error ,two tail hypothesis test from the SPSS version 20 were implemented. The main objective of this study was investigated comparison of physical fitness levels between physical education and musicstudents. Finally relative to research subjects g enerally there is no significance difference between two groups in selected physical finesses variabl es in independent sample t-test but significance difference of both groups from standard range mea n value in single sample t-test .when we compare the mean relatively physical education gro ups have better performance.Based on this the researcher recommend that students should particip ate in regular physical exercise in order to enhance their fitness level.