Sports improve a person's physical development, affect their ability to respond to complex situations, and allow for the development of management skills to make correct decisions quickly. Therefore, some types of sports should dominate in the high school physical education curriculum.
This research aims to study today's 17 to 18-year-old college students' abilities in sports in the area of (1) passing, dribbling & shooting a basketball, (2) the ability to pass and serve a volleyball, and (3) the ability to change direction and passing techniques in football.
A complex set of exercises based on the minimum skills to be mastered by the physical education curriculum at the basic & secondary education levels was developed and used in the study of 204-216 students.
The results find students' abilities in performing certain sports skills as follows: the ability to pass a basketball - above-average, the ability to shoot from dribbling - below-average, and female students performing at a lower level than their male counterparts. Statistically significant differences between gender and performance were observed during complex basketball drills.
In football, the ability to change the direction of the ball was well below-average, the ability to pass the ball to be above-average; with 29% of male students and 45% of female students had low or insufficient ability to perform complex football exercises at higher speeds.
In volleyball, passing and serving skills were all above-average.
This study proves that the expected results of the proposed physical education program are not fully implemented in sports other than volleyball.(?)