Date of Award
8-1-1971
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Kinesiology & Public Health Education
Abstract
The first phase of the problem was to determine if there were a relationship between basketball skill ability and physical education grade point average. The second phase was to determine if there were a relationship between the same basketball skill ability and academic grade point average.
The AAHPER Basketball Skills Test was administered to 100 sixth and seventh grade boys at Woodside Elementary School. After their basketball skill scores were standardized, these scores were correlated.with their physical education grade point average and their academic grade point average using the Pearson Product-Moment Formula. A correlation coefficient of 0.62 was found between basketball skill and physical education grade point average. This proved significant at the 0.01 level. A correlation coefficient of 0.27 was found between basketball skill and academic grade point average. This also proved significant at the 0.01 level. In both cases, the null hypothesis of there not being any relationship between skill and grade point average was rejected.
It was concluded on the basis of the results of this study that there is a relationship between basketball skill ability and physical education grade point average. It was also concluded there was a relationship between basketball skill ability and academic grade point average for the subjects tested at Woodside School.
Recommended Citation
Tylka, Dale, "A Relationship of Basketball Skill Ability as Compared to Physical Education Grade Point Average and Overall Grade Point Averages of Sixth and Seventh Grade Boys at Woodside Elementary School" (1971). Theses and Dissertations. 3683.
https://commons.und.edu/theses/3683