An Examination of the Role That Intercollegiate Athletic Participation Plays in Academic Achievement: Athletes' Feats in the Classroom

1993 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael T. Maloney ◽  
Robert E. McCormick
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Athletic Participation ◽  
Intercollegiate Athletic

Intercollegiate Athletic Participation and Freshman-Year Cognitive Outcomes

1995 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest T. Pascarella ◽  
Louise Bohr ◽  
Amaury Nora ◽  
Patrick T. Terenzini
Keyword(s):  
Athletic Participation ◽  
Cognitive Outcomes ◽  
Intercollegiate Athletic ◽  
Freshman Year

Impact of Intercollegiate Athletic Participation on Leadership Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clint S. Huntrods ◽  
Brian P. An ◽  
Ernest T. Pascarella
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Athletic Participation ◽  
Intercollegiate Athletic

Cognitive Impacts of Intercollegiate Athletic Participation: Some Further Evidence

1999 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest T. Pascarella ◽  
Rachel Truckenmiller ◽  
Amaury Nora ◽  
Patrick T. Terenzini ◽  
Marcia Edison ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Athletic Participation ◽  
Intercollegiate Athletic

scholarly journals Do Sports Crowd Out Books? The Impact of Intercollegiate Athletic Participation on Grades

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Insler ◽  
Jimmy Karam
Keyword(s):  
Instrumental Variable ◽  
Causal Effect ◽  
Peer Groups ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Athletic Participation ◽  
Naval Academy ◽  
Intercollegiate Athletic ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Promotion Rates ◽  
The Impact

We investigate the influence of intercollegiate athletic participation on grades using data from the U.S. Naval Academy. Athletic participation is an endogenous decision with respect to educational outcomes. To identify a causal effect, we develop an instrument via the Academy’s random assignment of students into peer groups. Instrumental variable (IVs) estimates suggest that sports participation modestly reduces recruited athletes’ grades. This finding has implications beyond college, as we also show that grades—not athletic participation—are most strongly associated with postcollegiate outcomes such as military tenure and promotion rates.

Biographical Factors Related to Academic Achievement

1973 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 321-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Halpin ◽  
Owen Scott ◽  
Glennelle Halpin
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Grade Point Average ◽  
Educational Psychology ◽  
Athletic Participation ◽  
Parental Warmth ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
Psychology Class ◽  
Opposite Sex

Biographical factors related to academic achievement in college were identified. Academic achievement in high school was positively related to both grade in educational psychology class and college grade-point average for females and to college grade-point average for males. For women, popularity with the opposite sex was negatively related to college grade-point average. For men, parental warmth was negatively related to college grade-point average. Athletic participation was negatively related to grade in educational psychology for both sexes.

Intercollegiate Athletic Participation and Freshman-Year Cognitive Outcomes

1995 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest T. Pascarella ◽  
Louise Bohr ◽  
Amaury Nora ◽  
Patrick T. Terenzini
Keyword(s):  
Athletic Participation ◽  
Cognitive Outcomes ◽  
Intercollegiate Athletic ◽  
Freshman Year

A Theoretical Analysis of Academic and Athletic Roles

1985 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eldon E. Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Athletic Participation ◽  
Multiple Roles ◽  
Symbolic Interactionist ◽  
Sociology Of Sport ◽  
Research Traditions ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives

One of the research traditions in sociology of sport is the study of athletic participation and academic achievement. Yet most of this research is primarily descriptive in nature and produces little cumulative explanatory knowledge; furthermore, the findings appear contradictory and confusing. The present paper utilizes the exchange and symbolic interactionist perspectives to analyze the concept of commitment to the multiple roles of athlete and scholar. These theoretical perspectives provide the potential for a greater understanding, explanation, and meaning to the findings in this area of research.

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