A research group led by Associate Professor Yuta Kuroda of the Faculty of Lifelong Sports at Hokusho University and Associate Professor Keita Kamigami of the Chukyo University Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences investigated the wins and losses of high school tennis team matches and students' academic achievement scores in all prefectures across the country. , found that there was a significant relationship.
According to Hokusho University, the research group looked at a total of 47 matches held in 4,780 prefectures, including the National High School Tennis Tournament regional qualifiers and the National High School Tennis Championships regional qualifiers, and looked at the high schools that won and the high schools that lost. We compared the deviation scores of high schools.
The results showed that the winning high schools had higher deviation scores than the losing schools.This trend remained the same regardless of gender and competition.Although the research group cannot say that playing tennis will improve your academic ability or that students with high academic ability will improve their tennis skills faster, they believe that the results suggest that both the arts and martial arts can be achieved.
Past research has shown that increasing physical fitness through the acquisition of exercise habits plays an important role in the healthy development of cognitive function and the improvement of academic ability.Current high school health and physical education textbooks introduce research showing that exercise and sports develop the brain, and that children with higher physical stamina do better on academic tests.
However, until now, there have been few studies that have focused on competitive sports, so the relationship between academic ability and competitive sports results has not been understood.
Paper information:[Trends in Neuroscience and Education] Balancing academics and athletics: School-level athletes' results are positively associated with their academic performance
