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Article: Recess tied to improved classroom behavior.(BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE)(Clinical report)
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- Pediatric News
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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Third graders who had at least some recess during their school day were better behaved, according to a longitudinal study of schoolchildren.
Teachers rated children who had at least one 15-minute free-play session every day as better behaved than those who had no recess or minimal recess, wrote Dr. Romina M. Barros and colleagues at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York (Pediatrics 2009; 123:431-6).
The investigators used data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ECLSK), a sample selected to be representative of the entire U.S. population of school children. In particular, they used data collected in ...