其他摘要：In order to find the current status of service course physical education in colleges and universities in the United States, including whether required for graduation, significant trends ,major objectives, activities provided for students, evaluation, staff and current problems, a questionnaire was sent to the chairmen of physical education departments of 333 colleges and universities in the United States in February, 1971. Upon collection of the returned questionnaire which amounted to 105, variety of contents were analyzed and certain phenomena were pointed out, including as follows: 1. A strong pressure to delete physical education from graduation requirement exists among colleges and universities, though statistically a quarter of these have been forced to do so already, and instead, elective programs are provided. Only 12 per cent of students take such elective course. 2. While students prefer recreation oriented sports when selecting activities for physical education classes, carry over values and fitness/health promotion are two outstanding objectives of physical education. 3. Physical education activity instructors are expected to be fine educators of variety of sports skills rather than researchers and super-athletes.
