Physically active math and language lessons improve academic achievement: A cluster randomized controlled trial

Pediatrics

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Mullender Wijnsma, Marijke J ^a   Hartman, Esther ^a   De Greeff, Johannes W ^a   Doolaard, Simone ^b   Bosker, Roel J ^b   Visscher, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; ELEMENTARY STUDENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SPELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHING; ACHIEVEMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; LANGUAGE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE;

ACHIEVEMENT; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; READING; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 84960110494     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2015-2743     Document Type: Article

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