PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

The purpose of the research work is to establish the importance of physical activity to improve cognitive development in the subject of Physical Education with second-year high school students, it was oriented towards the use of an active teaching methodology. Theresearch had a quantitative approach, of a quasi-experimental type, with a descriptive and correlational scope, with the goal of making statistical comparisons of the relationship of the study variables between the control and experimental groups; The intervention was carried out with the study or experimental group made up of 54 students who make up parallels A and B corresponding to the second year of high school; the technique used was the survey and the questionnaire was its instrument, made up of a total of 25 questions divided into two sections; When making the comparisons, the arithmetic median of the experimental group in the post-test reached 7.76 and in the control group 5.87; which means that after applying 3 workshops and 8 physical activities, after 8 weeks of intervention only with the students of the experimental group, the application of the proposal gave excellent results and achieved full compliance with the research objective; To verify this result, a satisfaction survey was finally applied to the students of the experimental group, in other words, it had a positive impact on the cognitive development of the students.