Attitudes on the Correlation of the Academic Achievement and Physical Proficiency: the Case of Top Ten Natural Science Preparatory Students in Each Section, at Lideta Sub-City In Addis Ababa
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2005-06
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Addis Abeba university
Abstract
This study is rendered to examine the pseudo perception of top ten, grade twelve
preparatory students in each class, in Lideta sub-city, on the correlation of
academic and physical proficiencies, the motive of the researcher to undertake the
study is on one hand to see the association of the physical development with that
of intellectual and determine their correlation on the other hand to assess the
perception of those ranked students towards the school physical education
engagement and physical activities at large in any case to do so (to make the
study practical and viable) the researcher customized descriptive co relational
method and the sampling procedure is deliberative(convenient) sampling and the
sample size was 100 participants that were engaged by the study, in connection
with this the data sources were both the primary and secondary, as the primary
data gathering procedure questionnaires , focus group discussion and interviews
were prepared and questionnaires were constructed and distributed for both those
top ten students and for those PE teachers of those ranked students at the study
areas whereas the interview were semi structured type and the items constructed
and presented(interviewed) for those aforesaid PE teachers (interviewees) and
while the focus group discussion where carried on for those four selected PE
teachers, all the activates have been recorded with tape recorder and what have
you as the secondary data sources the researcher has been operationalised the
literature review which clearly showed the association of academic performance
with that of physical efficacy in a positive comportment and as the secondary data
sources the researcher has been organized a check list in order to observe the
physical features and related phenomena within the study areas ,having said all
these things about the nature of the study and data sources the data that was
obtained by questionnaires were analyzed and interpreted quantitatively with
tabulation in percentage whereas the rest aforesaid data sources have been
analyzed and interpreted qualitatively at the end findings, conclusions and
recommendations have taken their own places and they approved a positive
direction.
Key terms: physical proficiency, academic achievement, deliberative sampling,
pseudo perception, correlation
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Physical Proficiency; Academic Achievement; Deliberative Sampling; Pseudo Perception; Correlation