Physical education teaching and learning efforts obviously target the student. Like parents
teachers administrators and any other directly or indirectly involved parties students do
have opinions based on their experience on their respective physical education classes and
physical education in general. These opinions or so-called attitudes are important to
research due to their potential of giving insight to the learner's perspective. This study
investigated German secondary school students' attitudes toward physical education. Results
have the intention to reveal what attitudes towards physical education German students have and
which factors influence these attitudes. The study sample contained students from the different
secondary school types. The students were surveyed via questionnaire that was developed based
on validated research instruments from prior studies in the field. Data was analyzed
integrating independent variables such as students' gender physical education grade grade
point average body mass index socioeconomic status type of school citizenship and the
exercise and physical activity behavior of students their parents and their peers.
