Open AccessASSESMENT OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN
Author(s) -
Himanshu Tripathi
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of research - granthaalayah
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2394-3629
pISSN - 2350-0530
DOI - 10.29121/granthaalayah.v4.i2.2016.2833
Subject(s) - physical activity , physical education , psychology , academic achievement , test (biology) , mathematics education , cognition , association (psychology) , task (project management) , medicine , physical therapy , engineering , paleontology , systems engineering , neuroscience , psychotherapist , biology
There is a need to find out the association between school-based physical activity, including physical education and academic performance among school-aged youth. To better understand these connections, this research paper first finds out the independent variables upon which academic performance depends. Study is from a range of physical activity contexts, including school-based physical education, recess, classroom-based physical activity and extracurricular physical activity. In his attempt researcher studied 120 students from 04 CBSE schools of Bikaner District, Rajasthan. He uses Physical Activity Questionnaire for Children (PAQ-C) to find out physical activity performance of students, examination/ test scores to find out the academic achievement and stroopcolour word task to find out the academic performance which includes cognitive dimension also.