The metaphors that secondary school students created for physical education

The purpose of this study is to present secondary school students emotions and thoughts about physical education class through their metaphors. The participants of this study consist of 482 students. A paper including the sentence Physical Education is like (a/an)………because……… was used to collect the data. The participants were asked to complete this sentence and the metaphors that they created were analyzed in five steps: naming the data, classifying the data, categorizing the data, testing the validity and reliability, and computerizing the data, respectively. As a result, the 6th grade secondary school students created 60, the 7th grade students 61 and the 8th grade students 79 different metaphors towards the concept of Physical Education.