Download or read book The Effects of a School based Physical Education Course on Seventh Grade Academic Achievement written by Gregory Allen Beasley and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This quantitative study examined academic achievement of seventh grade students from a local school district in Cincinnati, OH. Academic achievement and physical activity are both of importance and beneficial to an individual. Specifically, the purpose of this study was to determine whether students who are participating in school-based physical education (P.E.) courses exhibited higher academic achievements. The sample consisted of 290 seventh grade students for the school year (2015-2016), 312 for the school year (2016-2017), and 339 for the school year (2017-2018). For seventh grade students, archival data was received from the school, which included ethnicity, gender, Grade Point Averages (GPAs), and whether the student participated in P.E. The results were then analyzed using an Independent Samples t-test. According to the findings of this study, students who participated in school-based P.E. courses attained higher academic achievement in two of the three years researched.
Download or read book Educating the Student Body written by Committee on Physical Activity and Physical Education in the School Environment and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical inactivity is a key determinant of health across the lifespan. A lack of activity increases the risk of heart disease, colon and breast cancer, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, osteoporosis, anxiety and depression and others diseases. Emerging literature has suggested that in terms of mortality, the global population health burden of physical inactivity approaches that of cigarette smoking. The prevalence and substantial disease risk associated with physical inactivity has been described as a pandemic. The prevalence, health impact, and evidence of changeability all have resulted in calls for action to increase physical activity across the lifespan. In response to the need to find ways to make physical activity a health priority for youth, the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Physical Activity and Physical Education in the School Environment was formed. Its purpose was to review the current status of physical activity and physical education in the school environment, including before, during, and after school, and examine the influences of physical activity and physical education on the short and long term physical, cognitive and brain, and psychosocial health and development of children and adolescents. Educating the Student Body makes recommendations about approaches for strengthening and improving programs and policies for physical activity and physical education in the school environment. This report lays out a set of guiding principles to guide its work on these tasks. These included: recognizing the benefits of instilling life-long physical activity habits in children; the value of using systems thinking in improving physical activity and physical education in the school environment; the recognition of current disparities in opportunities and the need to achieve equity in physical activity and physical education; the importance of considering all types of school environments; the need to take into consideration the diversity of students as recommendations are developed. This report will be of interest to local and national policymakers, school officials, teachers, and the education community, researchers, professional organizations, and parents interested in physical activity, physical education, and health for school-aged children and adolescents.
Download or read book The Impact of Pshusical Education and Physical Activity on Academic Achievement written by Brenda Gail Scott and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: Past research recognizes how important physical activity is and its impact on children's academics and health. This quantitative research study was conducted to explore how physical activity and physical education (PA/PE) impacts local education agencies' (LEAs) academic achievement and learning on Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Progran (TCAP) Reading language Proficient and Advanced Performance Level Percentages. Data from the Physical Education/Physical Activity Questionnaire (PE/PAQa) used by the state of Tennessee Office of Coordinated School Health were analyzed using one-way ANOVA tests to determine whether there was a significant difference in TCAP scores according to the extent that schools (a) exceeded more then 90 -minutes of physical activity, (b) had new or updated playgrounds, (c) had full-time physical education teachers, and (d) incorporated professional development based on integrating physical activity into the classroom. Results from this study showed that schools that incorporated (a) 90-minuted or more physical activity a week, (b) new or or updated playgrounds, (c) had full-time physical education teachers, and (d) incorporated professional development based on integrating physical activity into the classroom had no statistical differences in student achievement when compared with schools that did not incorporate the aforementioned variables. Some results from this study opposes current viewpoints stating time away from the classroom, due to physical education and physical activity will result in decreased academic achievement.
Download or read book The Impact of Physical Education on Students Performance Outcomes in Mathematics written by Ryan T. Cox and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research studies have suggested that students who participate in daily physical activity and who are more physically fit may have improved academic achievement scores. However, pressures on school districts to improve students' academic achievement in core course areas such as math, science, and English have put less emphasis on courses such as physical education. School districts around the country have eliminated and/or have lessened the amount of physical activity students receive during the school day. This study examined the impact of time of physical education and difference in 9th-grade students' math achievement scores in their Algebra course and outcomes on the June 2019 New York State Algebra I Regents Examination. The causal-comparative quantitative study analyzed the mean scores between students who took physical education before or after receiving math instruction in their Algebra course. Further, the interaction effect of students' gender and economic status based on time of physical education was also investigated. The results of the study found that students who participate in physical education before they received instruction in Algebra had statistically significantly higher mean scores in both the course and end of year-standardized test than those students who participated in physical education after receiving math instruction. There were also findings that suggest that gender and economic status are variables in academic achievement based on the time of physical education. This research study provides implications that administrators may consider when structuring the schedule in their districts and ultimately aligning physical education and or physical activity prior to instruction targeted for improvement.
Download or read book The Relationship Between Physical Fitness Preadolescent Obesity and Academic Achievement in Seventh Grade Students in South Carolina written by Phillip Stephen Patterson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was not known if, or to what degree, a relationship existed among academic achievement in science, physical fitness, and preadolescent obesity. This quantitative, correlational study explored the relationship between physical fitness, preadolescent obesity, and academic achievement in 136 seventh grade students at an urban middle school in South Carolina who received 50 minutes of physical education daily for one semester. The researcher hypothesized that the level of physical fitness influences preadolescent obesity and academic performance. The hypotheses stated that there would be a positive correlation between physical fitness and achievement in science, a negative correlation between preadolescent obesity and achievement in science, and a negative correlation between fitness and preadolescent obesity. Pearson product-moment correlations were used to test the hypotheses. Physical fitness was measured using the FitnessGram. Academic performance was measured using the science benchmark assessment. The results revealed that physical fitness was positively correlated with academic achievement (r = .32, p = .001), obesity was negatively related to academic achievement (r = -.27, p = .001), and students' BMI was negatively related to physical fitness (r = -.71, p
Download or read book The Importance of Physical Education Classes in Relation to Physical Activity Behaviors Physical Fitness and Academic Achievement in Middle School Children written by Dawn Podulka Coe and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Academic and Behavioral Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Middle School Students written by Mark K. Alfone and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effect of School based Physical Activity and Obesity on Academic Achievement written by Jeanie S. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See Proquest for Summary.
Download or read book Health and Academic Achievement written by Blandina Bernal-Morales and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotional, physical and social well-being describe human health from birth. Good health goes hand in hand with the ability to handle stress for the future. However, biological factors such as diet, life experiences such as drug abuse, bullying, burnout and social factors such as family and community support at the school stage tend to mold health problems, affecting academic achievements. This book is a compilation of current scientific information about the challenges that students, families and teachers face regarding health and academic achievements. Contributions also relate to how physical activity, psychosocial support and other interventions can be made to understand resilience and vulnerability to school desertion. This book will be of interest to readers from broad professional fields, non-specialist readers, and those involved in education policy.
Download or read book Effects of a Concept based Physical Education Curriculum on Middle school Students Out of school Physical Activity written by Yubing Wang and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How students' experience and learning in an educational context influence their self-directed learning and behavior outside of school has always been an important question in education. Scholars have named the effects of physical education (PE) on students' out-of-school physical activity (PA) as the "PE effect". The purposes of this dissertation research were to first test a two-pathway model of the "PE effect" and then determine the extent to which a concept-based PE curriculum influenced middle-school students' PA behavior outside of the school. Specifically, the following research questions were addressed: (a) to what extent did eighth graders' knowledge and autonomous motivation for PE contribute to their autonomous motivation toward PA and, subsequently, influence their out-of-school PA? (b) Did eighth-grade students who had experienced the Science of Healthful Living (SHL) curriculum have higher levels of knowledge, autonomous motivation for PE, autonomous motivation toward PA, and out-of-school PA than those who had not? A total of 394 eighth-grade students from five schools participated in this study, in which 168 students studied the SHL curriculum when they were in sixth grade while 226 students only experienced traditional PE. Students' knowledge, out-of-school PA, and autonomous motivation toward PE and PA were measured using valid self-report instruments. Structural equation modelling was used to test the two-pathway model of the "PE effect". A static group comparison design was adopted to answer the second research question. Results showed that students' knowledge had a direct, positive relationship on their autonomous motivation toward PA and an indirect, positive relationship on out-of-school PA through influencing autonomous motivation toward PA. Students' autonomous motivation for PE had a direct, positive relationship on their autonomous motivation toward PA and an indirect, positive relationship on out-of-school PA through autonomous motivation toward PA. The results also showed that the students who had studied the SHL PE curriculum had significantly higher levels of knowledge, autonomous motivation toward PA, and out-of-school PA than the students who had experienced the traditional, multi-activity PE. No significant difference was found for autonomous motivation for PE. These results indicate that the two-pathway model is tenable in terms of knowledge learning and autonomous motivation in PE and imply that teaching knowledge in an autonomy-supportive PE environment can be an effective way to promote students' out-of-school PA behavior. The findings about the effects of the SHL curriculum further supported the knowledge learning pathway of the "PE effect" and indicate that the concept-based PE approach could be an effective model to promote students' PA behavior outside of the school."--Abstract from author supplied metadata.
Download or read book Debates in Physical Education written by Susan Anne Capel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debates in Physical Education explores major issues physical education teachers encounter in their daily professional lives. It engages with established and contemporary debates, promotes and supports critical reflection and aims to stimulate both novice and experienced teachers to reach informed judgements and argue their own point of view with deeper theoretical knowledge and understanding. In addition, concerns for the short, medium and long term future of the subject are voiced, with a variety of new approaches proposed. Key issues debated include: What are the aims of physical education? What should be covered in a physical education curriculum? How should we judge success in physical education? Is physical education really for all or is it just for the gifted and talented? Can physical education really combat the rise in obesity? What is the future for physical education in the 21st Century? Debates in Physical Education makes a timely and significant contribution to addressing current contentious issues in physical education. With its combination of expert opinion and fresh insight, this book is the ideal companion for all student and practising teachers engaged in initial teacher education, continuing professional development and Masters level study.
Download or read book The Effects of Sports Participation on Academic Achievement for Seventh graders in Urban Pennsylvania written by Jeffrey Steven White and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This quantitative, causal-comparative study was designed to investigate the effect of students’ participation in middle school interscholastic sports on their academic success among urban middle school students. The body of knowledge about the effect of participating in sports on academic achievement is comprehensive at the high school and college levels, but limited research has been done regarding sports participation among middle school students. The participants for this study were drawn from a convenience sample of 366 seventh-grade middle school students in eastern Pennsylvania during the 2018-2019 school year; stratified random sampling was also used to create groups with equal male and female participants. There were 108 student scores used for each research question. The independent variable for both research questions was students’ participation in interscholastic sports programs. The dependent variable for both research questions was the students’ scores on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment for reading and mathematics. The data were archival as student scores on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment were from the 2018-2019 school year. Differences between the two groups were examined by conducting two independent sample t tests. The researcher was unable to reject the null hypotheses for RQ1 and RQ2 and concluded that there was no significant difference in academic achievement demonstrated on Reading and Mathematics PSSA scores between the two groups (i.e. athletes and non-athletes). Recommendations for further research on this topic are to include more participants from multiple schools, require a minimum amount of time for participation in a sport, and use course grades to determine academic success.
Download or read book Children and Sport written by J. Ilmarinen and published by . This book was released on 1984-06-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Physical Education written by Eric W. Rothbart and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relationship of Academic Achievement and Physical Fitness Between Two Seventh Grade Classes at Towncrest Junior High School written by Lorne E. Rideout and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Changes in the Elementary School Physical Education Program on Selected Variables of Motor Fitness Self concept and Academic Achievement written by Ronald Wayne Williams and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Physical Activity and Educational Achievement written by Romain Meeusen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A growing body of research evidence suggests that physical activity can have a positive effect on educational achievement. This book examines a range of processes associated with physical activity that are of relevance to those working in education – including cognition, learning, memory, attention, mood, stress and mental health symptoms – and draws on the latest insights from exercise neuroscience to help explain the evidence. With contributions from leading scientists and educationalists from around the world, this book cuts through the myths to interrogate the relationship between physical activity and educational achievement in children, adolescents and young adults in a variety of cultural and geographical contexts. Examining both the benefits and risks associated with physical activity from the perspectives of exercise science and educational psychology, it also looks ahead to ask what the limits of this research might be and what effects it might have on the future practice of education. Physical Activity and Educational Achievement: Insights from Exercise Neuroscience is fascinating reading for any student, academic or practitioner with an interest in exercise science and education.
