Comparación del rendimiento académico de los estudiantes que pertenecen a las selecciones deportivas ASCUN y el de los estudiantes que no practican deporte a nivel competitivo en la Universidad Santo Tomás, I semestre del 2014

Abstract

The comparison of the academic performance of the students that belong to the ASCUN sports teams and that of the students who do not practice sports at a competitive level at the University of Santo Tomás, I semester of 2014, is a study born from the Julian students' initiative David Hernández and Andrés Felipe Corzo, with the aim of establishing whether there are differences between these two types of population and thus determining how sport affects academic performance or if it simply is not a determining factor. The type of study that was carried out was observational, descriptive of cross section, because the academic performance of the population was evaluated at a time, through the application of a survey. The type of population that was intervened was students of the Santo Tomás University enrolled in the first semester of 2014 belonging to one of the ASCUN sports teams and students who did not practice sports at a competitive level during that date. The study concluded with the participation of 119 students, 42 ASCUN and 77 students who did not practice competitive sports. It was a study that yielded significant results, in which a better academic average could be evidenced by the students to which they belonged to these ASCUN selections.