The educational impacts of young people's participation in organised sport: a systematic review
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Purpose: – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of young people's participation in organised sport on their educational outcomes. Design/methodology/approach: – Systematic review of the literature. A comprehensive search was used to identify all research evidence about engagement, impact and value in culture and sport. A combination of manual and automated screening was used to select studies for inclusion in this review based on pre-specified criteria. Included studies had to use a “high”-quality experimental research design, focus on children and young people and have quantitative educational outcome measures. Results from the individual studies were transformed into a standardised effect size and meta-analysis was used to combine the results from individual studies where appropriate. Findings: – Young people's participation in sport may lead to improved educational outcomes. Young people's participation in organised sports activities, when compared to non-participation, improves their numeracy skills. Young people's participation in organised sport linked with extra-curricular activities, when compared to non-participation, improves a range of learning outcomes for underachieving pupils. These findings are based on six “high”-quality studies conducted in the UK and North America. Study populations included young people within the range of four to 16 years old. Originality/value: – This paper builds on the existing evidence base in two main ways. First, it focuses specifically on the impacts associated with organised sport whereas previous reviews have had a broader focus. Second, it uses meta-analytic methods to synthesise study findings. This paper provides pooled effect sizes for overall educational impacts and translates these into potential changes in test/grade scores.
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- Authors
- Schucan Bird, K., Tripney, J., & Newman, M.
- Venue
- Journal of Children's Services
- Publisher
- Emerald
- Published
- 2013-11-29
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 264-275
- ISSN
- 1746-6660 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2006478966
- Cited by
- 16
- References
- 24
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 4 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 0.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Children s Services (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Youth Development and Social Support
- Social Sciences › Life-span and Life-course Studies › Sports and Physical Education Studies
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation › Physical Education and Pedagogy
- Keywords
- organized sport, youth sport participation, educational outcomes, numeracy skills, extracurricular activities, children and young people, sport and education
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