The purpose of the study was to determine whether a state of physiological arousal induced by an episode of moderate physical exercise serves to improve problem solving ability in high school Algebra II students. / Forty-eight students were pretested for 15 minutes with a test of non-routine problems. The students were then exposed to one of two treatments. The experimental treatment consisted of running in place for four minutes at an individual pace aimed at maintaining a heart rate of 130-150 beats per minute. The control treatment consisted of reviewing Algebra II concepts. After the treatment, the subjects were posttested with a different form of the problem solving test. / A posttest-pretest difference was computed for each subject and an analysis of covariance was performed on the differences with pretest scores as the covariate. The F value obtained was F = 7.85, which is significant at the (alpha) = .01 level. It was concluded that the exercise effect was significant. / Three related hypotheses were also investigated. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-09, Section: A, page: 2605. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75632 |
| Contributors | BOND, TINA BAEHR., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 62 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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