Abstract:
Physical literacy (PL) provides kids with the movement skills they need to engage in
physical exercise for the rest of their lives. Internationally, there is no psychometrically
validated questionnaire to measure the PL knowledge level of the teachers and coaches
working with children. Therefore, the aim of this thesis was to design a physical literacy
knowledge questionnaire that satisfied acceptable psychometric criteria of validity and
reliability. With ethics committee approval, 336 participants from three groups (Physical
Education (PE) teachers, n = 170; university academic staff, n = 6; and undergraduate
PE students, n = 160) were recruited for this study using convenient sampling. The
reliability and validity of the questionnaire were tested with Cronbach’s alpha using
the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 23. The Physical
Literacy Knowledge Questionnaire is a 3-point Likert-scale survey consisting of 40 items.
The Cronbach’s alpha test conducted shows that the university academic staff scored
0.746 (moderate level), PE teachers scored 0.611 (moderate level), and undergraduate
PE students scored 0.773 (high degree of correlation) for the items in the instruments.
The findings of this study indicate that the questionnaire was suitably valid and reliable
to determine the physical literacy knowledge of Sri Lankan physical education teachers.
