School 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...

Prediction of enjoyment in school physical education.

The specific aim of this study was to examine whether motivational climate, perceived physical competence, and exercise motivation predict enjoyment in school physical education within the same sample of adolescents across three years of secondary school. A sample of 639 students (girls = 296, boys = 343) aged between 13- to 15-years at the commencement of the study completed the Intrinsic Moti...

Direct observation in high school physical education

Physical performance and school physical education in overweight Spanish children.

AIMS To evaluate the effect of physical performance and extracurricular organized physical activities (EOPA) in normal- and overweight children. METHODS A random sample of 1,068 schoolchildren (7-12 years old) representative of the region of Aragon (Spain) was selected and divided into normal-, overweight and obese groups based on previously published body mass index reference standards. Phys...

District and school physical education policies: implications for physical education and recess time.

BACKGROUND The relationship between physical education (PE) policies and children's PE and recess time is not well understood. PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to assess the association of district and school PE policies, the PE environment, and PE and recess time. METHODS Key informants in 65 schools from 9 states completed instruments assessing district and school PE policies, the sch...