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Shen, Bo; McCaughtry, Nate; Martin, Jeffrey J.; Fahlman, Mariane M. – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2009
With the belief that theoretical integration in motivation may help us better understand motivational behavior, we designed this study to explore adolescents' motivational profiles and their associations with knowledge acquisition, leisure-time exercise behaviors, and cardiorespiratory fitness. Middle school students from a large urban inner-city…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Physical Fitness, Student Motivation
Williams, Holly – Online Submission, 2007
This report summarizes results of a data analysis that attempts to answer the question of whether AISD students' physical fitness is related to their academic achievement in Spring 2006.
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 7, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
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Goudas, Marios; Dermitzaki, Irini; Leondari, Aggeliki; Danish, Steven – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2006
The purpose of the present study was to examine the effectiveness of a life skills training program taught as part of physical education lessons. Seventy three, seventh grade students were assigned either in an experimental or in a wait-list control replication group and received an abbreviated version of GOAL, a school-based intervention designed…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Fitness, Program Effectiveness, Grade 7