EFFECT OF SPORT PARTICIPATION ON THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN THE SUBJECT OF MATHEMATICS AT SECONDARY LEVEL

Abstract

Most of the previous studies' conclusions and results show that sports have great consequences and are important to students' academic achievement. The rationale of the study was to inspect the effect of participating in sports activities on the academic performance of students in the subject of Mathematics at the secondary level. Sports are considered as exertion which is competitive with precise directives with pre-requisite physical tools and area. In these there are different physical activities like football, netball, hockey, and table tennis are the part of sports activities. The prime purpose of this research is to clarify the effect of all these activities on students' mental and physical health and academic performance in school life. The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of sports participation on the  academic achievement of students in the subject of Mathematics at the secondary level. The study hypothesized that there is no significant difference between the mean score of the experimental and non-experimental groups in the subject of Mathematics at the secondary level. The study was conducted on a sample of 58 9th-class students of Government high school Ghazni Khel Lakki Marwat Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The sample students again were grouped as experimental and control having 29 students each of the group. The posttest-only equivalent group design was used for data collection. Data were collected from the sample students in three stages by three different tests. The collected data was analyzed by applying mean, standard deviation, and t-test. The study showed that there is a statistically significant difference between the performance of the experimental and control groups.