Indian Journal of Physical Education, Sports Medicine & Exercise Science

  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue: 1

A comparative study of physical fitness between government and private school children

  • Author:
  • Vaibhav Rana1, Aruna Sirohi2
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 80 to 82

1Astt. Professor, JSM Academy, CCS University, Meerut

2Associate Professor, Swami Vivekananda Subharti University, Meerut

Abstract

The aim of the current study was to compare the physical fitness of government and private school secondary level children. For the purpose of this study 435 (N=435) students were purposively selected as the participants. The mean age of the participants was 15.83±1.19 and ranged between 13 to 18 years. Out of those participants 229 participants were from government school and 206 participants were from private school. Appropriate physical fitness test were employed to measure the physical fitness level of the students. To compare the physical fitness level between government and private school students the researcher employed Independent Sample T test by means of SPSS software. The researcher found that the Body Mass Index and reaction ability of private school students are higher than the students of government school.

Keywords

Reaction ability, Physical fitness and School children