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Cross-sectional studies examining the influence of sport, physical education or physical activity upon academic achievement. |
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| Author |
Sample |
Milieu |
Outcome measure |
Response |
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| Significant association |
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| Nelson and Gordon-Larsen [20] |
US National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health |
USA |
Grades |
Risk ratio for higher results 1.20 for mathematics and 1.21 for English |
| Field et al. [21] |
52 girls and 37 boys in suburban high school |
USA |
GPA |
Higher GPA |
| Dwyer et al. [24] |
7961 schoolchildren, aged 7–15 years in 109 schools |
Australia |
Rating by the school principal |
school performance positively associated with PA in the preceding week |
| Pate et al. [25] |
Youth Risk Behavior Survey adolescents |
USA |
Perception of academic performance |
Inverse relation with level of PA. |
| Williams [26] |
England |
GPA |
positive association between school sports participation and AA |
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| Sigfudsdottir et al. [27] |
Iceland |
self-reported school performance |
r = -0.11 with absenteeism and r = 0.09 with grades |
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| Negative or null outcomes on AA |
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| Tremblay et al. [28] |
6,923 grade 6 children |
New Brunswick (Canada) |
GPA and self-esteem |
Inverse relation PA and AA |
| Daley and Ryan [29] |
232 boys and girls (13–16 years old) |
England |
self-reported PA and GPA |
No relationship except for the duration of PA time vs. marks for English (r = -0.29 to -0.30) |
| Dollman et al. [30] |
Primary school children grades 3, 5 and 7 in 117 schools |
Australia |
Reading and maths scores |
No relation |
| Yu et al. [31] |
333 Chinese pre-adolescents (aged 8–12) |
Hong Kong, China |
Examination results and conduct grades |
No relation with AA but relation with self-esteem |
Trudeau and Shephard International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2008 5:10 doi:10.1186/1479-5868-5-10 |
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