12/06/07

Thank you for taking the time to fill out this survey!

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Your participation will help me complete a study of the relationship between physical activity and academic achievement (measured in this case by GPA), a project for my HSS 226 class. 

While there is plenty of literature on this topic, it mainly focuses on students in middle school.  Most studies on the subject conclude that while it is not a significant relationship, there is most likely a connection between physical activity and academic achievement.  Physical activity lowers stress and anxiety, and increases self-esteem.  Students who are overweight, inactive, and have poor eating habits tend to miss school more often than their peers because they are more likely to become ill or have psychological problems.

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This survey has been placed on line as part of an assignment for a computer applications class (HSS 226) at the University of Dayton (UD). Your participation in completing this survey is voluntary. All surveys are taken anonymously. It is important that you respond to the survey items as truthfully as possible. By completing this survey, you will contribute to the educational experience of UD students (please select the contact button to learn the names of the UD students involved in placing this survey on-line). This survey provides the students with the educational experience of building a website, creating a forms page, and subsequently working with the resulting response sets in a spreadsheet. The survey questions you are about to answer have been taken from the following source:

"SF-36 Health Survey". QualityMetric Inc.. September 29, 2007 <http://www.swin.edu.au/victims/resources/assessment/health/SF36.pdf>.

We feel our use of these questions is covered by the "educational fair use" policy (http://www.libraries.psu.edu/mtss/fairuse/guidelines.html). Full credit for ownership of the intellectual property contained within this survey is given to the authors of the survey questions. The UD students and instructor do not assume any credit for authorship or intellectual property for survey questions unless it is specifically stated above that the student(s) authored the questions. The instructor did not author any questions. The course instructor is Dr. C. Jayne Brahler and she can be contacted at jayne.brahler@udayton.edu if you have any questions.