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- Title
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF PUPILS IN SPORT CLASSES: PUPILS ATTENDING SPORT CLASSES HAVE HIGHER FINAL GRADES, BUT….
- Authors
Peternelj, Branko; Škof, Branko; Strel, Janko
- Abstract
The main goal of the study was to establish whether there are any differences between groups of pupils attending a sport class for eight years and those attending a regular class in terms of their final grade. The experiment was based on three school years of pupils (N=134) from the Miroslav Vilhar Primary School in Postojna, Slovenia, who were monitored throughout the period they attended primary school. A total of 68 pupils attended the sport class (experimental group) and 66 were in the regular school programme (control group). The sample of variables consisted of all standard primary school subjects. The progressive (regressive) changes were monitored on the basis of final grades in individual subjects. The t-test for independent samples and the Chi-square test confirmed the statistical significance of the differences between the pupils attending the regular school programme and those attending a sport class in those subjects that they attended throughout the eight years; specifically, Slovenian language (16%) and mathematics (14%) (p<0.01) and their final grade calculated as the average of all grades, (7%) (p<0.05), in favour of those pupils attending the sport class. The analysis of covariance showed that the differences in the final grade mainly stemmed from the differences in the overall achievement at the beginning of schooling and the influence of the family environment, especially the parents' education. This means that the observed differences in the overall achievement of pupils attending sport and regular classes are mainly a consequence of the initial formation of individual classes. In a family environment where high levels of knowledge and education are perceived as valuable, parents show greater interest in and care for both the education of their children and that they develop a healthy lifestyle.
- Subjects
SLOVENIA; PHYSICAL education; ACADEMIC achievement; SCHOOL children; SPORTS instruction; GRADE point average; T-test (Statistics); CHI-squared test
- Publication
Kinesiologia Slovenica, 2009, Vol 15, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
1318-2269
- Publication type
Article