Evaluated the Quality of Physical Education Program – A Case Study for Male Students Participating in Basketball Course

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the application of a new basketball program for healthy male students at Saigon University when compared with the current basketball election classes in the physical education program. 64 healthy male students were chosen and randomly divided into two groups (experimental and control groups). All participants have experienced the 15-week training in basketball court at Saigon University every Wednesday morning. The results of the study indicated that a new basketball program had a positive improvement on speed, agility, power of leg, and maximum aerobic speed, except the core strength. Therefore, a new basketball program could facilitate greater enhancements, gave more benefits than the current program, created a healthy environment in studying physical education, and suited the enhancing training needs of male students at Saigon University. Future studies should be clarified the impact of that program for female students, for other types of sports, in line with the classification of participants, i.e., less exercise, long-term training, and high level in training of students.