SPORT & EXERCISE SCIENCES

How Sports Participation Affects Academics



Abstract

In the debate about athletic participation and academic performance, it is often assumed that sport activities of adolescents will be harmful to their academics outcomes. The underlying line of reasoning is oversimplified. Since the time spent on sport activities crowds out time devoted to schooling, the impact of sport is negative. However, empirical investigations find a rather positive correlation between sport and educational attainment. These findings will be supported by two main arguments. The first extends the simple allocation of time model by introducing additional activities. The second acknowledges that leisure activities can have direct positive but also negative effects on educational productivity. The relationship between high school athletic participation and educational achievement is one of the most discussed, debated, and researched topics in all of sport scholarship, particularly when one looks at the social scientific research focused on sport and society interactions and their consequences. Dozens of dissertations have been written on the topic, and new studies and papers-the best and most important of which will be reviewed in this report-appear every year. Nevertheless, the crucial point for a general audience is that periodic updates, reviews, reappraisals and re-evaluations have, over the years, consistently and invariably yielded evidence concluding that there is a significant baseline correlation between high school sports participation and higher rates of academic achievement and aspiration for individual students. Even research that is critical of the sports/education nexus or that seeks to complicate and unpack this statistical association begins from this basic assumption and understanding. The relationship between high school sports participation and scholastic achievement is, in the words of one such research team, a "fact, well-established. This paper discusses how sports participation affects academics.



Table of Content

ABSTRACTII

CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION1

Outline of the Study1

Problem Statement1

Rationale1

Aims and Objectives2

Significance2

Research Question/Hypothesis3

Theoretical Frame work3

Limitation of the Study4

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW6

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY8

Research Design8

Sample8

Instrument (interview/ Questionnaire)8

Procedures9

Data analysis9

REFERENCES11

APPENDICES24

Cover Letter24

Proposed Questionnaire25

CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION

Outline of the Study

Economic analyses of sports have become very popular in the last decades (Sloane, 2006). While the focus of most studies is on labour markets, labour-management relations, wage determination, and finance in professional sports like baseball, basketball, football, and soccer, only few research deals with the impact of non-professional sports on economic outcomes. Conversely, the economic literature about human capital mainly focuses on formal education and on-the-job training. Other forms of human capital investments like out of school activities of students (e.g., sport) are largely neglected.

Problem Statement

Sport can help to form the character of young people because it teaches behavioural habits like motivation, discipline, tenacity, competitive spirit, responsibility, perseverance, confidence, and self-esteem, which cannot always be acquired in classroom. These behavioural aspects should lead to reduced truancy, increase the willingness to succeed in school, and encourage social interaction with other students, which are associated with higher efficiency of learning because time is used more productively

Rationale

In a simple allocation of time model with only two activities an adolescent can choose from, the time devoted to leisure activities like sport cannot be used for school ...