High School Interscholastic Athletic Participation Influence on Student Educational Outcomes: A Retrospective Mixed-Methods Analysis of the High School Interscholastic Athletic Experiences of Undergraduate College Students
Open AccessThe present study sought to identify and determine the influence of high school interscholastic athletic participation experiences on the educational outcomes of students. The relationship between athletic participation and various student educational outcomes has been well documented from a quantitative approach in existing literature. Research has yet to explore this relationship at length from the participant perspective qualitatively. The extensive focus on quantitative means has limited the results of existing literature to a multitude of correlational statistics, yielding little substantive evidence to support a causal relationship between athletic participation and student educational outcomes.To address the identified void in qualitative research, the present study implemented a mixed-methods approach through the use of concept mapping to elicit the voice of the study participants through the collection of participant generated, sorted, and rated data. The present study successfully obtained such data, contributing seminal progress in the identification and determination of the influence of experiences associated with interscholastic athletics participation on student educational outcomes.Representing the first application of the concept mapping methodology to this area of research, the present study captured the student voice and perspective, yielding notable findings in regard to (1) the development of a framework for the understanding of experiences associated with interscholastic athletics participation, (2) the homogeneity of perception of similar interscholastic athletic experiences of boys and girls, and (3) discrepancies in the frequency of occurrence and perceived influence of interscholastic athletic experiences by students.
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