Physical Exercise related to student’s academic performance

• Autor(a) principal: Honório, Samuel
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Batista, Marco, Santos, Jorge, Vandoni, Matteo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.11/8733
• topic: Exercise; School Academic performance; Physical Education; Attention; Concentration

Academic performance is a topic of extreme relevance given the fact that it influences many other areas of children's and adolescents' lives. Academic performance is defined as a concrete assessment of the knowledge obtained by students. In practice, it refers to the results of assessment evaluations that teachers apply in the school context. The evaluation is then a classification that is attributed to the works and tests carried out for the school context and that informs students, parents, teachers and the community in general of the learning acquired by the student. The purpose of evaluation is to certify, assess and verify the degree of achievement of these objectives. It can also be added that the objective of this evaluation is to summarize the performance of the students, in a group of strategies and learning objectives and that it was designed so that it is possible to make decisions about the results of those evaluated. Academic performance is then the externally evaluated result achieved by the student. Several variables have been associated with school results, that is, academic performance, self-esteem, self-concept, parents' education as well as their involvement in the children's lives, and the sociocultural context in which the child or adolescent is inserted. In this sense, physical exercise has been reported to increase academic performance, assertiveness, confidence, emotional stability, intellectual functioning, memory, perception, positive body image, self-control, well-being and efficiency at work. Physical exercise can help children to achieve higher academic performance levels and postulate that while high-intensity, short-term exercise promotes mental and intellectual functioning, long-term strenuous exercise can inhibit the subject's performance, unless he possesses high physical aptitudes. The practice of physical exercise in schools promotes an increase in muscle tension, which is a facilitating element in the performance of various psychological tasks. In their study, subjects submitted to physical exercise show faster acquisition and evolution of meaningless syllables and a greater ability in terms of learning/memorizing associated pairs, greater accuracy in solving simple mathematical problems and greater efficiency in a test perceptive color naming than subjects who perform the same tasks under normal conditions. Some studies suggest, however, that exercise can help students improve their academic performance through a variety of approaches and strategies, considering that when someone feels good physically, they are able to function at a higher level academically.