Athletics and the Classroom: The Effect of Participation in School-Sponsored Sports on Academic Achievement and Perception of Classroom Work Habits

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dc.contributor.advisorWaynant, Louise
dc.contributor.advisorWoods, Rebecca
dc.contributor.authorStraub, Lauren
dc.contributor.programMasters of Educationen_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-13T16:43:11Z
dc.date.available2016-05-13T16:43:11Z
dc.date.issued2016-05-12
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this research was to determine whether participation in school-sponsored sports was related to academic achievement, classroom work habits and students’ perceptions related to their courses and achievement. A survey was completed by 126 high school students whose second marking period grade point averages were accessed from school records. The investigator, a high school teacher and coach, compared self-report data regarding students’ decisions to play or not play a winter sport, athletes’ beliefs about whether their participation in sports affected their academic achievement, and all students’ perceptions of their classroom work habits and academic choices. The results indicated that student athletes’ mean grade point average was statistically significantly higher than that of the non-athletes. Student athletes also rated some of their classroom work habits as more diligent or rigorous than did non-athletes on average. Future research might inquire further about the motivations of student athletes in terms of course selection and work habits and how these further affect their options to participate in other activities, and how such participation affects their course selection and work habits.en_US
dc.format.extent40 p.en_US
dc.genreaction research papersen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2KR28
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/2848
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relationMaster of Education
dc.relation.isAvailableAtGoucher College, Baltimore, MD
dc.rightsCollection may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. To obtain information or permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Goucher Special Collections & Archives at 410-337-6347 or email archives@goucher.edu.
dc.subjectsports participationen_US
dc.subjectafter school activitiesen_US
dc.subjectmotivationen_US
dc.subjectself-concepten_US
dc.subjectclassroom work habitsen_US
dc.subject.lcshEducation -- Research papers (Graduate)
dc.subject.lcshHigh school sports -- Academic achievement -- Evaluation.
dc.subject.lcshLearning -- High school athletes.
dc.titleAthletics and the Classroom: The Effect of Participation in School-Sponsored Sports on Academic Achievement and Perception of Classroom Work Habitsen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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