Comparison of Physical Fitness Level of Urban and Rural Students in Secondary School of Hawassa
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2017-09-01
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Addis Ababa University
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The objective of the present study was to compare the physical fitness level of urban and rural students in secondary schools of Hawassa and to identify the relation of physical fitness with academic achievement. The study was carried out on 400 students of both the sexes in which 219 were rural (113 males + 106 females) and 181 were urban (87 males + 94 females). From the selected participants 215 were from grade 9 and 185 participants were grade 10 students. Selected health related fitness components and all skill related fitness component tests were conducted to compare rural and urban back ground students who are learning in 7 governmental schools of Hawassa town. Descriptive (average, standard deviation) and inferential statistics (independent t- test) were used for data analysis .The results of the study indicated that in most measured parameters there were significant difference between rural and urban students (p<0.05). In most health and skill related fitness rural male and female students were better than their urban counterparts.
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Physical fitness, Health - related fitness, Skill-related fitness, Academic achievement