Editorial: Psychodidactic Variables and Academic Performance in Physical Education

Physical education, school physical activity, school sports and academic performance

BACKGROUND The purpose of this paper is to review relationships of academic performance and some of its determinants to participation in school-based physical activities, including physical education (PE), free school physical activity (PA) and school sports. METHODS Linkages between academic achievement and involvement in PE, school PA and sport programmes have been examined, based on a syst...

Can Student Reflection Predict Academic Success and Clinical Performance in a Physical Therapist Education Program?

children ’ s Physical fitness and Academic Performance

Background: Childhood obesity is a major public health threat. Increased fitness may have a positive influence on cognitive performance in both adults and children. Purpose: To examine which aspects of children’s fitness assessment are associated with their performance on four different academic areas. Methods: FITNESSGRAM measures aerobic capacity, abdominal strength, upper body strength/endur...

Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Academic Performance

PURPOSE: To determine the relationships between objectively measured and self-reported physical activity, sedentary behavior, and academic performance in Finnish children. METHODS: Two hundred seventy-seven children from five schools in the Jyväskylä school district in Finland (58% of the 475 eligible students; mean age 12.2 years; 56% girls) participated in the study in the spring of 2011. Sel...

the relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement in english and general subjects of the students of high school

according to research, academic self-concept and academic achievement are mutually interdependent. in the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the academic achievement of students in english as a foreign language and general subjects. the participants were 320 students studying in 4th grade of high school in three cities of noor, nowshah...