Academic Performance of Athletes and Non-Athletes in Selected Nigerian Universities.
| dc.contributor.author | Alla, Joseph Babalola | |
| dc.contributor.other | Abioye, J. A. | |
| dc.contributor.other | Adeniran, S. A. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-01-31T11:24:11Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-10-27T15:16:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-01-31T11:24:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-10-27T15:16:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1985 | |
| dc.degree.award | M.A. Physical Education | en_US |
| dc.department | Physical and Health Education | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This study compared the academic performance of athletes with that of non-athletes and investigated the cause of students' failures and successes in academics in three Universities: (i) Ife, (ii) Nigeria-Nsukka and (iii) Benin University. Four hundred and seventy-nine subjects were used in the study, 306 non-athletes and 173 athletes. The Grade Point Average (G.P.A.) of 103 athletes and 206 non-athletes were collected. Seventy athletes and 100 non-athletes were orally interviewed. The Two - Way analysis of variance, and t-test and t-test correlated were used to analyse the data, the results showed that in 1979/80 session (a N.U.G.A. games year) the G.P.A, of athletes was significantly higher than that of non-athletes in the University of Benin. In 1980/81 session (a non-N.U.G.A. games year) non-athletes had significantly higher mean G.P.A. than athletes in the University of Ife. Also, it was observed that mean G.P.A. of athletes for a non-N.U.G.A. games year was not significantly higher than that of N.U.G.A. games years. Both athletes and non-athletes stated that the factors responsible for students' failures were poor health and socio-economic problems and wrong choice of courses. Based on the results, it was concluded that except for 1980/81 session (a non-N.U.G.A. games year) in the University of Ife, non-athletes were not academically better than athletes. Since there was no significant difference in the academic performance of athletes during a N.U.G.A. games year and a non-N.U.G.A. games year and that sports by itself did not contribute to athletes academic failures, it could be concluded that sports participation does not retard academic performance of athletes. | en_US |
| dc.faculties | Education | en_US |
| dc.format.filetype | en_US | |
| dc.identifier.citation | APA | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2806 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.pages.totalpages | 117p | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Obafemi Awolowo University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Grade Point Average (GPA) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Academic performance | en_US |
| dc.title | Academic Performance of Athletes and Non-Athletes in Selected Nigerian Universities. | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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