The Importance Of Physical Education And School Sports

Although high school sports have been extremely popular in the past decades, they can also affect an athlete’s education in a bad way. Physical Education and School Sports is also viewed as a good way for educational attainment. Many studies have shown that physical education and sports may not harm the athletes education. .School sports can get you scholarships from the best schools out there. Even though most student athletes don’t become professional they still spend hours of practice on and off the field. Athletes also need to plan ahead since most athletes will not have a professional sport career. Many people believe that a sports is their key to success. Many others think that sports are more important than school or their education.

An important strength of the present study was that data were collected on measures of both physical activity and sports team participation. This permitted the separate examination of the contribution of each variable to academic outcomes. Additionally, the Project EAT sample, because of its large size and diversity in race/ethnicity and SES, permitted generalization of the findings to other metropolitan populations of students. A limitation of this study was the lack of precision of the physical activity measure. Although physical activity recalls of children as young as fifth grade were shown to have adequate reliability and validity when used for research. A measure of baseline cardiorespiratory fitness and an objective measure of exertion during physical activity would
Provide further insight into the effects of physical activity on academic achievement. Self-report Of academic grades may also have been a limitation of the study. Additionally, because of the
Cross-sectional study design, causality between sports team participation or physical activity