The Study of the Relationship between Types of Sports and Students’ Academic Achievement at Nakhon Pathom Municipality Sport School

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to study factors that affected academic achievements and sports participationof the students at NakhonPathom Municipality Sport School,2) toinvestigatetherelationship betweentypesof sportsand academicachievements of thestudentsat NakhonPathomMunicipalitySportSchool,and 3) tocomparetherelationship betweeneachtypeof sportsand academicachievementsof thestudentsat NakhonPathom Municipality Sport School. The sample which was selected using stratified sampling method comprised 204outof433students.The questionnaires wereused as researchinstrument for collecting data. The statisticsused for data analysis were frequency distribution, percentage, mean, standard deviation(S.D.),and One-Way ANOVA.Theresults revealed that1) thestudent and thecontent factorsmoderatelyaffected academicachievementsand sports participation of the students at Nakhon Pathom Municipality Sport School. Meanwhile, the teacher and the training factors highly affected their academic achievements and sports participation, 2) different types of sports that the students participated in were not significantly related to their academic achievements, and 3) the comparison of the relationship between types of sports and academic achievements of the students at Nakhon Pathom Municipality Sport School showed that the students who participated in volleyball got the highest average collective scores, while those who participated in golf got the lowest collective scores. The equation for predicting academic achievements of the students could be shown in the form of raw scores as follows: academic achievement = 9.679 + -0.713 the student factor (X1) + -0.664 the training factor (X4).