Increased Physical Education at School Improves the Visual-Spatial Cognition during Adolescence

Autor/inn/en	Jansen, Petra; Ellinger, Jan; Lehmann, Jennifer
Titel	Increased Physical Education at School Improves the Visual-Spatial Cognition during Adolescence
Quelle	In: Educational Psychology, 38 (2018) 7, S.964-976 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Jansen, Petra)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0144-3410
DOI	10.1080/01443410.2018.1457777
Schlagwörter	Physical Education; Spatial Ability; Visual Perception; Task Analysis; Cognitive Processes; Gender Differences; Motor Development; Psychomotor Skills; High School Students; Correlation; Academic Achievement; Foreign Countries; Test Items; Item Analysis; Tests; Schemata (Cognition); Skill Development; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Körpererziehung; Sportunterricht; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Aufgabenanalyse; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Geschlechterkonflikt; Motorische Entwicklung; Psychomotorische Aktivität; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Korrelation; Schulleistung; Ausland; Test content; Testaufgabe; Itemanalyse; Examination; Prüfung; Examen; Cognition; Schema; Kognition; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Deutschland
Abstract	The main goal of this study was to investigate the influence of an established school programme with a high amount of physical education on visual-spatial ability in a secondary school. One hundred and forty-four adolescents, 69 from sport classes and 75 from regular classes, solved a cognitive processing speed task and a mental rotation task. The results reflect a better cognitive processing speed of the boys in the sports classes compared to regular classes but no differences for girls. Concerning the mental rotation performance, we found a significantly better mental rotation performance for boys and girls in the sports classes compared to regular classes due to an increased number of items worked on. Supposedly, motor expertise facilitates mental rotation performance by promoting a faster editing of the task. The benefits of sport classes in normal high school settings have to be investigated in further studies considering the effect on academic performance. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01