The Influence of Elementary School Students' Art Courses on Academic Achievement

Abstract

Although all sectors of society in China have paid attention to the positive impact of physical activity on academic performance, students are often accused of loving art sports because of the influence of intellectual education rather than art. In schools, the phenomenon that art class are occupied by other main teachers also occurs from time to time. Even with the continuous emphasis on quality education, there are many areas that teachers, parents and students need to improve in their ideas and actions. Therefore, if students can prove a positive relationship between art and academic performance in the way of scientific research, it is of great significance for students to form sports awareness, correct sports attitude and develop sports habits. This study explores the relationship between art literacy and academic performance through a combination of qualitative and quantitative surveys. The hypothesis of this study is that students 'art participation, art movement attitude and art sports skills are positively associated with students' academic performance. The research methods include literature and data method, questionnaire survey method, mathematical statistics method and interview method. The eighth-grade students from two middle schools in Shanghai were questionnaires. In this study, the questionnaire data and academic performance were mainly analyzed by SPSS26.0 and AMOS24.0, and the data were analyzed by frequency analysis, reliability and validity test, paired sample T-test, correlation analysis and multiple linear regression analysis respectively. The results of the analysis are that the participation degree of art movement, learning attitude, art skills and art accomplishment of junior high school students are significantly related to students' academic performance. Based on the questionnaire survey, on the basis of 216 students, art class experiment, and at the beginning of this semester for academic test and questionnaire survey, the front test, after classroom experiment, near the final students’ academic test and questionnaire survey, namely the back test, after two tests, analysis of the relationship between the students 'art course and academic performance, through the art course experiment, whether can improve students' academic performance, and analyze the influencing factors of academic course performance, provide reasonable Suggestions for teaching. In view of these reasons, the following suggestions are put forward: appropriately increase students 'art teaching time to cultivate students' art values, improve the learning evaluation method and pay attention to the cultivation of students' thinking.