%0 Journal Article
%T A social work study on quality on quality of physical education programs in primary schools: A case study of governmental and non-for-profit schools in city of Esfahan, Iran
%A Allahyar Arabmomeni
%A Mohammad Reza Iravani
%A khodayar Momeni
%A Hajar Jannesari
%J Management Science Letters
%D 2013
%I Growing Science
%X Physical education is one of the most important parts of schoolchildren studies and it could influence of social and academic performance of children, significantly. This paper studies physical education among schoolchildren who attend elementary schools in city of Esfahan, Iran over for the educational calendar of 2010-2011. The study selects 52 schools as sample, 18 non-for-profit and 34 governmental schools and half of them belong to female students. The results of this study indicate that physical education has a somewhat better quality in non-for-profit educational system compared with governmental ones although this difference is not statistically significance (P<0.05). In our survey, ten percent of time, physical education was performed poorly, twenty five percent was in average condition, forty eight percent was in good condition and seventeen percent was in excellent condition.
%K Physical education
%K Elementary schools
%K Educational programs
%U http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol3/msl_2013_26.pdf