Editorial: Physical exercise related to student's academic performance.

degree of fulfilment of objectives. It can also be added that the objective of this evaluation is to summarize the performance of the students, in a group of strategies and learning objectives and that it was designed so that it is possible to make decisions about the results of the evaluated ones. It is with this type of evaluation that teachers classify and send their results and necessary information to parents and students (Martins, 2012). Academic performance is then the externally evaluated result achieved by the student. Several variables have been associated with school results, that is, academic performance, such as: self-esteem (representation of oneself under an affective component) and self-concept (beliefs about oneself from a cognitive perspective), parents' schooling as well as their involvement in their children's lives, and the sociocultural context in which the child or adolescent is inserted (Oliveira, 2015). In this sense, physical exercise has been reported to increase academic performance, assertiveness, confidence, emotional stability, intellectual functioning, memory, perception, positive body image, self-control, sexual satisfaction, well-being. being and efficiency at work (Rigoli, Piek, Kane and Oosterlaan, 2012).The articles published in this special issue frame and support the contexts highlighted according to the themes under study.