Enhancing academic performance of physical education majors through active learning

This study is to investigate the influence of Active Learning on the academic performance of physical education majors by adjusting the curriculum and adopting active learning.Participants were 67 physical education college students.The experimental group consisted of 35 students and the control group contained 32 students.This study is based on a quasi-experimental design with two groups that have different members.After the 10 weeks of lessons the total scores of both groups had significantly improved.The post-test scores were higher than those of the pre-test, the students in the EG had performed better than those in the CG in the post-test.With just a slight change of content in a basketball class, students' attitude toward learning can change and their academic performance be improved by adjusting the teaching method.Active learning has been proved to be effective in improving the academic performance of Chinese college physical education majors.