This is shown by a new study from Malmö University, which has analyzed data from 1.4 million students who graduated from ninth grade between 2000 and 2017.
We have measured how similar the grades of full siblings are, and can see that their grades in sports and health become more and more similar over time, says Alexander Jansson, researcher at Malmö University.
According to the study, grades in sports and health were less affected by family background than in other subjects at the beginning of the period. After 2012, there was a rapid change.
We have compared it with the merit value and what you can see is that the importance of family background has increased slightly over 20 years. During the same period of time, the importance of family background for grades in sports and health has increased greatly, says Jansson.
According to him, one possible reason could be that theoretical knowledge has been given greater weight in grading in physical education and health, which benefits students with a certain background.
Those who have benefited from traditional theoretical teaching have always done so in the theoretical subjects of school. Back then, there was a group that might have been able to demonstrate the physical, but that's not really the case anymore.
