SULMARY OF QUESTIONNAIRE ON COLLEGE AND
UNIVERSITY PHYSICAL EDUCATION PROGRALMS
Lawrence Rarick
School of Education
Boston University

The following is a summary of the 73 questionnaires returned out of the
101 sent to selected colleges and universities throughout the United States,.
In some cases all the questions in the questionnaire were not answered there-
by making an apparent but not a real discrepancy on the calculated totals
and percentages, The following summary, I believe, gives a fairly complete
picture of the major changes in the programs of these institutions.and may
well be typical of the general trends in most colleges and universities.

1. How many semesters of physical education are required for graduation?

In 1942-43

The median requirement in 1941-42 was 4 semester hours,
the median required has increased to 6 semester hours.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TABLE I, Semesters of Physical Education Required for Graduation,
Pér eent Requiring ‘Per cent Requiring
Semesters | 1941-42 Pb hlehe 1942-13 P.Be-l9h2-43
8 a Aahf , Ae boa th
Q 200 a Lekd.
6 h ——— 5 Jake
2 1 dae 2 200
Ly 2. | 46,20 a 31.41
a L 1.48 0 200
2 19 28,420 2 12.82
4 Q : a QQ Q 200
OQ. 8 11,90 > 1.43

 

 

2. How many hours of physical education activity are required each week?

The following table shows a considerable increase in time alloted per
week in the 1942-43 requirements at the freshmen, sophomore, junior,

and senior years over the preceding year,
is also somewhat higher at each grade level,

The average time allotment
Table II gives a com-

parison of the hours of activity required per week as shown by the

number of institutions requiring the amount indicated,

Table Iil

shows the median and average weekly requirement at each grade level,