The US has designed programs that test the academic skills of a student by measuring their characteristics such as: family type, environment, school, and the student themselves to predict test scores on standardized exams. There are numerous amounts of research that has presented us with what impacts the academic success of a student. Previously conducted research suggest that’s measuring such factors show better chances at educational attainment (Kyllonan, 2012). Extracurricular activities are found at most schools. Clubs, music, or sports, all have an effect on the academic success of a student. Outside of school students can use that opportunity to enhance school performance (Fujita, 2005). Given that there are many important factors
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A broad sense of the topic doesn’t only follow elementary students, but follows students all the way into high school and college. Analyzing past literature will show the impact extracurricular activities have on students test scores and shows the importance of how each activity provides a different asset. “Simply offering extracurricular activities without the understanding from the group for which they are intended could potentially produce lackluster results (George 2012)”. This relates as the student may deviate in participating because there isn’t a club or activity that sparks any interest, whereas clubs that do encourages the student to participate.
Kimiko Fujita’s (2005) approach to this problem is analyzing and interpreting each activity to show whether or not junior high school students that participate in extracurricular activities on non-participants will affect their academic performance. The questions she wants to solve is what effects do specific activities have on academic performance? Her data insisted that being involved in sports, clubs, and community service will improve performance and concludes that the type of activity the student is involved in can have a larger …show more content…
She realizes that it’s very important other facets that give us an in-depth view of how gender and ethnicity can also be a factor in participating and academia. Boys were more inclined to be involved in sports whereas girls participated much more in artistic activities, but less in sports. Ethnicity, especially in disadvantaged areas, presented higher test scores than the ones that didn’t. A study on SAT said, “participation in extracurricular activities in high school appears to be one of the few interventions that may benefit disadvantaged students—those less well served by traditional educational programs—as much as or more than their more advantaged peers (Everson and Millsap, 2004)”. Basically, the cultural norms you’re surrounded by will have a tremendous impact of your involvement in extracurricular activities compared to other
A broad sense of the topic doesn’t only follow elementary students, but follows students all the way into high school and college. Analyzing past literature will show the impact extracurricular activities have on students test scores and shows the importance of how each activity provides a different asset. “Simply offering extracurricular activities without the understanding from the group for which they are intended could potentially produce lackluster results (George 2012)”. This relates as the student may deviate in participating because there isn’t a club or activity that sparks any interest, whereas clubs that do encourages the student to participate.
Kimiko Fujita’s (2005) approach to this problem is analyzing and interpreting each activity to show whether or not junior high school students that participate in extracurricular activities on non-participants will affect their academic performance. The questions she wants to solve is what effects do specific activities have on academic performance? Her data insisted that being involved in sports, clubs, and community service will improve performance and concludes that the type of activity the student is involved in can have a larger …show more content…
She realizes that it’s very important other facets that give us an in-depth view of how gender and ethnicity can also be a factor in participating and academia. Boys were more inclined to be involved in sports whereas girls participated much more in artistic activities, but less in sports. Ethnicity, especially in disadvantaged areas, presented higher test scores than the ones that didn’t. A study on SAT said, “participation in extracurricular activities in high school appears to be one of the few interventions that may benefit disadvantaged students—those less well served by traditional educational programs—as much as or more than their more advantaged peers (Everson and Millsap, 2004)”. Basically, the cultural norms you’re surrounded by will have a tremendous impact of your involvement in extracurricular activities compared to other