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The Vocational Maturity is one of the necessary conditions of person to be good at his chosen profession. Individuals who have undergone professional development process and have decided a profession have vocational maturity. The aim of the study was to examine the Vocational Maturity (VM) points of School of Physical Education and Sports (PESS) students comparatively. A total 159 college students who educated Teacher Education (TED, n=40), Coaching Education (CED, n=40), Sport Management (SMD, n=39) and Recreation (RD, n=40) departments were voluntarily participated in the study. In order to find out student's VM level was used VM scale which is constituted 40 items was used to determine attitude about choice of profession of them. The scale was randomly used almost %50 total sizes of class. As a result of VM scale; if the VM points are less than 143, VM level is below the %50; if VM points are among 143-155, VM level is in the range of %50-75 and if VM points are more than 155, VM level can be assessed as high. According to the research results, VM points of TED (154.15±10.49) and RD (151.65±7.23) was found more than 143 but SMD (135.56±6.90) and CED (134.57±9.42) VM points were found less than 143. According to the results of comparative statistics, VM points of TED students are higher than points of SMD and CED students significantly (P<0.01). There is no any similar significant differences between points of TED and RD students (P>0.05). Furthermore, VM points of RD students are significantly higher than SMD and CED students (P<0.01). In conclusion, this outcome might be originated from the higher vocational replacement probability of TED students than other department after graduation.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of one and two handed backhand tennis practice on hand-eye coordination in tennis. Twenty three subjects (21.51±1.36 years old) voluntarily participated in study and assigned into two tennis training conditions in random order: training with one-handed (OH) backhand strokes (n=11) and training with two-handed (TH) backhand strokes (n=12). Tennis technical practices were given to all subjects during four weeks (twice a week, 2hours per day). The subjects were evaluated with Two Hand-Eye Coordination Test (THECT) and Tennis Ability Test (TAT). The tests were carried out at the beginning (4thhour) and the end of the study (16thhour). As a results, there were no significant differences between OH and TH groups in TAT at pre (OH=41.56±19.18; TH=39.61±16.95% points; p=0.84) and post (OH=70.46±14.25; TH=62.73±20.53;p=0,34) tests. Moreover, in THECT there were no significant differences between OH and TH groups at pre (OH=42.45±8.44; TH=42.90±11.28; p=0.92) and post (OH=29.34±5.31; TH=33.39±11.61, p=0.33) tests. Although there were significant differences between pre and post test of OH group in TAT (p=0.01), there were no similar significance in TH group (p=0.11). There were significant differences in THECT between pre and post tests in OH (p=0.00) and TH (p=0.00) groups. According to these results, two handed backhand stroke does not more effective than one handed back hand stroke, considered of targeting in tennis and two hand-eye coordination abilities.