Sporting activities result in better grades, says study
Posted on: 04/Apr/2016 3:55:47 PM
A new study has found that students who participate in sports earn better grade point averages. If they play sports during academic years, research has shown that they get grades that are 9 percent higher than those who finish their degrees without having participated in similar activities. The study was conducted by researchers at the Charles II University of Madrid (UC3M) in Spain.
The study was conducted on a sample of 3671 students. They all started their undergraduate degree programmes in 2008 and finished before 2015.
Say the researchers, Although there are previous studies that have indicated that taking part in sports activities has negative effects on academic performance, the most commonly accepted belief is that the impact of sports is far from being negative and is, in fact, remarkably positive. Our final results show that participation in regular, official physical-sports activity positively affects the academic performance of UC3M students. Specifically, those students who participated in sporting activities earned grade point averages that were 9.3 per cent higher than those of students who completed their undergraduate degrees but did not take part in any sporting activities.
