Post by luke on Jul 3, 2016 18:10:18 GMT -6
Do Extra Curricular activities affect success?
I founded a couple of interesting articles that cover this question. Before doing this research I was very interested in pursuing this question as Extra Curricular activities has affected my life personally, and now it is very interesting on seeing this being a factor or helps with a students academic life.
Article 1
"I use data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study to examine both the number and the types of extracurricular activities in which elementary school students participate and find significant differences in participation patterns by gender, race, and class. The number of activities in which students participate during kindergarten and first grade affects their gains in reading achievement test scores between first and third grade and third grade teachers' evaluations of mathematics skills, but does not affect gains in math achievement test scores or teachers' evaluations of language arts skills. Dance lessons, athletic activities, and art lessons, in particular, affect one or more of the dependent variables. With one exception, interactions of extracurricular activities with socioeconomic status show that less-privileged children benefit more from participation in activities than do more-privileged children, providing evidence against Bourdieu's theory of cultural capital and social reproduction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Dumais, Susan A. "Elementary School Students' Extracurricular Activities: The Effects Of Participation On Achievement And Teachers' Evaluations." Sociological Spectrum 26.2 (2006): 117-147. Academic Search Complete. Web. 3 July 2016.
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Here's the other article. This article talks about teacher expectancies and what teachers tend to notice from students.
Article 2
Teacher expectancies can have an impact on students' academic achievement. These expectancies can be based on diverse student characteristics, only one of which is past academic performance. The present study investigated three student individual differences that teachers may use when forming academic expectancies: the sex of the student, the family socioeconomic status (SES) of the student, and the student's after-school activities. Results indicated teachers held higher grade, graduation, and college attendance expectancies for females than for males and for middle-SES than low-SES students. Also, students who participated in extracurricular activities were expected to achieve more academically than either students who were employed after school or who did nothing after school. The latter two groups did not elicit different teacher expectancies. Interactions revealed that (a) lowest expectations were held for low-SES males who did nothing after school and (b) the difference in graduation expectancies between the SES groups was only half as great for students who took part in extracurricular activities than it was for students who had no involvements after school or who had jobs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Van Matre, Jill C., Jeffrey C. Valentine, and Harris Cooper. "Effect Of Students' After-School Activities On Teachers' Academic Expectancies." Contemporary Educational Psychology 25.2 (2000): 167-183. Academic Search Complete. Web. 3 July 2016.
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After reading these two articles, it got me thinking that there is evidence. that being involved with Extra Curricular activities has a positive academic impact on students who participate in them, than those who do not. What article 1 talked about was how less privileged children who got involved with Extra curricular activities had a bigger impact on them. But also showed how being involved with a certain activity shows improvement in one or more levels.
I am certain there are more articles that may (or may not) support my research, and I am very interested in seeing them!!
My questions to further discuss this.
Do Extra Curricular activities create motivation for Academic success? if so has a Extra Curricular Activity affected your own or a friends academic success?
Are there negatives to Extra Curricular activities?
I founded a couple of interesting articles that cover this question. Before doing this research I was very interested in pursuing this question as Extra Curricular activities has affected my life personally, and now it is very interesting on seeing this being a factor or helps with a students academic life.
Article 1
"I use data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study to examine both the number and the types of extracurricular activities in which elementary school students participate and find significant differences in participation patterns by gender, race, and class. The number of activities in which students participate during kindergarten and first grade affects their gains in reading achievement test scores between first and third grade and third grade teachers' evaluations of mathematics skills, but does not affect gains in math achievement test scores or teachers' evaluations of language arts skills. Dance lessons, athletic activities, and art lessons, in particular, affect one or more of the dependent variables. With one exception, interactions of extracurricular activities with socioeconomic status show that less-privileged children benefit more from participation in activities than do more-privileged children, providing evidence against Bourdieu's theory of cultural capital and social reproduction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Dumais, Susan A. "Elementary School Students' Extracurricular Activities: The Effects Of Participation On Achievement And Teachers' Evaluations." Sociological Spectrum 26.2 (2006): 117-147. Academic Search Complete. Web. 3 July 2016.
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Here's the other article. This article talks about teacher expectancies and what teachers tend to notice from students.
Article 2
Teacher expectancies can have an impact on students' academic achievement. These expectancies can be based on diverse student characteristics, only one of which is past academic performance. The present study investigated three student individual differences that teachers may use when forming academic expectancies: the sex of the student, the family socioeconomic status (SES) of the student, and the student's after-school activities. Results indicated teachers held higher grade, graduation, and college attendance expectancies for females than for males and for middle-SES than low-SES students. Also, students who participated in extracurricular activities were expected to achieve more academically than either students who were employed after school or who did nothing after school. The latter two groups did not elicit different teacher expectancies. Interactions revealed that (a) lowest expectations were held for low-SES males who did nothing after school and (b) the difference in graduation expectancies between the SES groups was only half as great for students who took part in extracurricular activities than it was for students who had no involvements after school or who had jobs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Van Matre, Jill C., Jeffrey C. Valentine, and Harris Cooper. "Effect Of Students' After-School Activities On Teachers' Academic Expectancies." Contemporary Educational Psychology 25.2 (2000): 167-183. Academic Search Complete. Web. 3 July 2016.
Permalink: rlrc-proxy.elgin.edu:5000/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=22029589&site=ehost-live
After reading these two articles, it got me thinking that there is evidence. that being involved with Extra Curricular activities has a positive academic impact on students who participate in them, than those who do not. What article 1 talked about was how less privileged children who got involved with Extra curricular activities had a bigger impact on them. But also showed how being involved with a certain activity shows improvement in one or more levels.
I am certain there are more articles that may (or may not) support my research, and I am very interested in seeing them!!
My questions to further discuss this.
Do Extra Curricular activities create motivation for Academic success? if so has a Extra Curricular Activity affected your own or a friends academic success?
Are there negatives to Extra Curricular activities?